678762 - Add links to the nightly builds of all build channels and latest candidates.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Release Engineering :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Joachim Herb]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0
Build ID: 20110804030150

Steps to reproduce:

I develop an add-on for Thunderbird and have started to add mozmill tests. 

The tests should be executed automatically by a script. For the current operating system the script downloads the different version builds of Thunderbird and the corresponding zip archives including the (mozmill) tests.

To make it easy for the script, the current versions (release, beta, aurora, comm-central) should be linked directly from the ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/ directory.


Actual results:

At the moment there are links to ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-aurora/ and ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-central/ but not to the beta and release builds. The latter are (somehow) hidden in the candidate builds of which there are several versions. 


Expected results:

There should be links like latest-beta and latest-release pointing to the corresponding builds. 

The current version of the script can be found here: https://hg.mozilla.org/users/Joachim.Herb_gmx.de/compactheader/test

Comment 1

[John Hopkins (:jhopkins)]

Created script + cron job to update latest-comm-beta and latest-comm-release symlinks.

https://hg.mozilla.org/users/john.hopkins_mozillamessaging.com/misc/file/a552237657d0/stage/symlink-latest-release.py

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I don't like the names of these symlinks, I'm even cautious about having the latest-comm-release ones at all, because that is implying something that they shouldn't (yes, even though they are in the /nightly/ directory).

If we must have these I'd rather go with latest-candidate-comm-beta and latest-candidate-comm-release, to try and make it clearer that we might not have even released these builds to the public yet.

Comment 3

[John Hopkins (:jhopkins)]

standard8: I have renamed the symlinks to latest-candidate-comm-beta and latest-candidate-comm-release

Comment 4

[Joachim Herb]

This seems to be broken since the 14.0 release of Thunderbird. The latest updates were:

latest-candidate-comm-beta/	15-Aug-2012 13:46
latest-candidate-comm-release/	13-Jul-2012 19:42

Comment 5

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This is releng's area now.

Comment 6

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Hrmmm, there's a reason we don't provide these links for Firefox, as Mark alludes to in comment #2.

jhopkins: is your script still running somewhere via cron?

Comment 7

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

The "latest-beta" and "latest" directories in https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/, https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/ and https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/ provide this now, I think?

Comment 8

[Joachim Herb]

The links are gone at https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/latest-beta/README.txt and https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/latest/README.txt

Also it looks like, the test archives are not inlcluded anymore on the ftp site.

For the ESR and nightly builds, there are packages for the tests, e. g.:
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-esr52/
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-central/

But even the candiates of the current release and the beta do not include them, e. g.
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/candidates/52.6.0-candidates/build1/linux-i686/en-US/

Comment 9

[Joachim Herb]

Due its age, I will close this bug again and file a new one.