We've got two outstanding bugs ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1231320 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1174263), and so are postponing this for at least a week. I will give an update this Friday if we're able to set a date for the switch over.
Sorry for the noise! -selena On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 2:06 PM Selena Deckelmann <[email protected]> wrote: > The time has come! We are planning to switch to Tier-1 on Treeherder for > TaskCluster Linux 64 Debug build jobs on March 14. At the same time, we > will hide the Buildbot build jobs, but continue running them. > > On March 21, we plan to switch the Linux 64 Debug tests to Tier-1 and hide > the related Buildbot test jobs. > > After about 30 days, we plan to disable and remove all Buildbot jobs > related to Linux Debug. > > > > Background: > > We've been running Linux 64 Debug builds and tests using TaskCluster > side-by-side with Buildbot jobs since February 18th. Some of the project > work that was done to green up the tests is documented here: > https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/buildbot-to-taskcluster-migration > > The new tests are running in Docker-ized environments, and the Docker > images we use are defined in-tree and publicly accessible. > > This work was the culmination of many months of effort, with Joel Maher, > Dustin Mitchell and Armen Zambrano primarily focused on test migration this > quarter. Thank you to everyone who responded to NEEDINFOs, emails and pings > on IRC to help with untangling busted test runs. > > On performance, we're taking a 14% hit across all the new test jobs vs. > the old jobs in Buildbot. We ran two large-scale tests to help determine > where slowness might still be lurking, and were able to find and fix many > issues. There are a handful of jobs remaining that seem significantly > slower, while others are significantly faster. We decided that it was more > important to deprecate the old jobs and start exclusively maintaining the > new jobs now, rather than wait to resolve the remaining performance issues. > Over time we hope to address issues with the owners of the affected test > suites. > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
