1209011 - Change default branch from `master` to `mozilla-central`

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Testing :: Firefox UI Tests, defect)

Description

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Given that we have a 1:1 mapping for our branches with the Firefox tree branches on hg.mozilla.org, I would suggest that we finally use `mozilla-central` for our default branch. That way it would be easy enough to go back and forth between our branches and the in-tree ones. Right now we always need a conversion method which I think is unfortunate. This change will simplify a couple of tools.

David do you have any objections? If not I will create the new branch, update mozmill ci to make use of it, switch over, and finally delete master.

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

I got an ok from both David and Chris on IRC. I will go ahead and make those changes.

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

I pushed a clone of master as mozilla-central to our repository and made it the default branch:
https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ui-tests/commits/mozilla-central

The old master is still present as:
https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ui-tests/tree/master

Once mozmill-ci has been updated it will be removed.

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Maja and Syd, can you both please make sure to update your tests to handle the new branch name? Thanks.

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Changes have been pushed to mozmill-ci. See https://github.com/mozilla/mozmill-ci/issues/659 for details. For the production system it will go live later today.

I'm waiting for Maja and Syd now to update their system before removing the master branch.

Comment 5

[Maja Frydrychowicz :impossibus (was :maja_zf) (needinfo me)]

Thanks for the heads-up, Henrik.

firefox-media-tests refer only to a commit in firefox-ui-tests as a git submodule. No reference is made to any branch of firefox-ui-tests in our pf-jenkins jobs. 

The only dependency on branch names is in the mozharness script in bug 1197224, and I have just updated my patch to remove the reference to 'master'.

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Talked with Syd on IRC and there is nothing on his side which needs a change. So I'm going to finally delete the master branch now. Mozmill-CI has been updated and makes use of mozilla-central on both staging and production.

Comment 7

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

The master branch is finally gone now.