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Firefox Automation report – week 5/6 2014

A lot of things were happening in weeks 5 and 6, and we made some good progress regards the stability of Mozmill.

Highlights

The unexpected and intermittent Jenkins crashes our Mozmill CI system was affected with are totally gone now. Most likely the delayed creation of jobs made that possible, which also gave Jenkins a bit more breath and not bomb it with hundreds of API calls.

For the upcoming release of Mozmill 2.0.4 a version bump for package dependencies was necessary for mozdownload. So we released mozdownload 1.11. Sadly a newly introduced regression in packaging caused us to release mozdownload 1.11.1 a day later.

After a lot of work for stability improvements we were able to release Mozmill 2.0.4. This version is one with the largest amount of changes in the last couple of months. Restarts and shutdowns of the application is way better handled by Mozmill now. Sadly we noticed another problem during restarts of the application on OS X (bug 966234) which forced us to fix mozrunner.

Henrik released mozrunner 5.34 which includes a fix how mozrunner retrieves the state of the application during a restart. It was failing here by telling us that the application has quit while it was still running. As result Mozmill started a new Firefox process, which was not able to access the still used profile. A follow-up Mozmill release was necessary, so we went for testing it.

As another great highlight for community members who are usually not able to attend our Firefox Automation meetings, we have started to record our meetings now. So if you want to replay the meetings please check our archive.

Individual Updates

For more granular updates of each individual team member please visit our weekly team etherpad for week 5 and week 6.

Meeting Details

If you are interested in further details and discussions you might also want to have a look at the meeting agenda and notes from the Firefox Automation meetings of week 5 and week 6.

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