4305 - Tinderbox should pull the tree by date

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Steve Lamm]

The "C" (i.e. changes) links, on tinderbox are pretty meaningless because they
may or may not represent what the tree actually pulled. If tinderbox pulled by
date, then the "C" links could be accurate. This is assuming that files don't
show up later because of the mirroring delay.

The date should be at least as early as when the build began. (Perhaps 5 minutes
earlier to factor in the mirroring delay). In other words, if a tree start to
build at 10:32, then it should pull with a date of 10:32 (and maybe 10:27).

Comment 1

[Chris Yeh]

Assigning to briano.

Brian, please change the UNIX tinderbox script to do this. When it's checked in,
assign it back to me so we can get Win and Mac to do the same thing.

Comment 2

[Brian Ostrom]

Done for mozilla/tools/tinderbox/build-moz-smoke.pl (I really think
we should make this work on non-Unix platforms as well...).  The
default is to build with a timestamp, but there is a flag to turn
this off.  One thing I don't like about using a timestamp is the
extra time required for each checkout.  I don't know how significant
it'll be for an entire Tinderbox build pass, but it _will_ be
noticeable.  Fortunately, there should be only one or two time
comparisons per ,v file at most.  We'll see.

Comment 3

[Chris Yeh]

sar to hold meeting about tinderbox improvements.

Comment 4

[Steve Lamm]

sar is gone. Assigning back to cyeh.

Comment 5

[Chris Yeh]

this is a low priority, setting m7

Comment 6

[Steve Lamm]

Without this fix, the "Guilty" column will continue to be out of sync with the
builds. And the "C" changes links are meaningless. Maybe I should take the links
off tinderbox.

Comment 7

[Chris Yeh]

marking as enhancment, probably won't be looked at any time soon.

Comment 8

[Chris Yeh]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12660 ***

Comment 9

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I can't see anything about this bug that is related to bug 12660.  12660 is
an HTML Form Controls bug.

Comment 10

[leger]

Clearing DUPLICATE resolution due to reopen.

Comment 11

[Chris Yeh]

mass reassign to leaf

Comment 12

[Daniel (Leaf) Nunes]

I thought this was fixed. i'll double check.

Comment 13

[Daniel (Leaf) Nunes]

this is, in fact, fixed.