Yep, we definitely need to move development repos over to mozilla-aurora or 
else locally run tests will not be applicable to the built product.

-Alex

On Oct 9, 2012, at 2:19 PM, John Ford <[email protected]> wrote:

> That change switched the nightly manifest branch.  That is only for nightly 
> builds, but that means that we're still using mozilla-central for 
> development.  As central and aurora further diverge, the code that developers 
> are working on and testing the most is less similar to what we're shipping.
> 
> If we keep nightly on aurora and master on central, there isn't really effect 
> on the normal developer workflow and nothing needs to be backed out.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 9, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Alex Keybl wrote:
> 
>> mwu committed 
>> https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/b2g-manifest/commit/619a55c60eb6b15ebce52afe08f889855036fc64
>>  already. If you've got concerns about the workflow effect on devs, we 
>> should probably back it out in the short term.
>> 
>> Thanks for following up on this John.
>> 
>> -Alex
>> 
>> On Oct 9, 2012, at 1:44 PM, John Ford <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> We already have a nightly branch of b2g-manifest.  It's easy to switch from 
>>> mozilla-central to mozilla-aurora on both nightly and master.  My only 
>>> concern is what happens to the local repositories that developers are 
>>> using.  Switching repositories for gecko causes a lot of churn.  Because 
>>> the releng maintained git mirrors use out of tree branching (i.e. separate 
>>> repositories) instead of an in-tree branch, we need to be careful about how 
>>> we change the manifests as there is a possibility that developer's local 
>>> repositories are messed up by this switch.
>>> 
>>> I am testing this change and will reply to this thread when I have more 
>>> information on how we can make this change with minimal headache.  When we 
>>> have a plan, I will make the changes to the manifests.
>>> 
>>> John
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Oct 9, 2012, at 9:55 AM, Jonathan Griffin wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Alex,
>>>> 
>>>>> Jonathan will need to move Nightly/Stable builds over to mozilla-aurora 
>>>>> from mozilla-central for tonight's build, given the FF18 base.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The nightly builds utilize the build manifests at 
>>>> https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/b2g-manifest to select repos.  I believe 
>>>> these likely need to change to point to the aurora branch.  If we do that, 
>>>> then the builders will pick up this change automatically.  mwu owns these.
>>>> 
>>>> If there is some reason not to update those, then I can hack the builder 
>>>> to use aurora instead.
>>>> 
>>>> Jonathan
>>>> 
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