1400079 - Reduce Thunderbird Nightly Locale Count

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Recently releng discovered that our largest spending in AWS, at least for build related jobs, are coming from perma-failing Thunderbird nightly repacks.

Unless there are compelling reasons not to, on Monday, Sept 18th, we will proceed with disabling all but a few busted jobs. Once the remaining jobs running are green again, we can start re-enabling all locales.

The goal here is to avoid spending extra money on things that are perma-busted rather than to hinder your ability to debug and fix.

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The technical details of this work will be to greatly reduce the number of locales we will attempt to repack, we can back that out once the jobs are fixed.

Comment 1

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

This would only affect the locales lists in buildbot-configs, right?

Comment 2

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

(In reply to Axel Hecht [:Pike] from comment #1)
> This would only affect the locales lists in buildbot-configs, right?

Correct this would be the all-locales.comm-central file which is used:  https://dxr.mozilla.org/build-central/source/buildbot-configs/mozilla/thunderbird_config.py?q=comm-central+all-locales&redirect_type=single#738 --> https://dxr.mozilla.org/build-central/source/buildbotcustom/l10n.py#92

Comment 3

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Attachment: Bug 1400079 - Reduce Thunderbird Nightly Locale Count.

Temporarily reduce the locale count for TB l10n repacks, on central, until they are green again and we can run the full set.

Review commit: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/180934/diff/#index_header
See other reviews: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/180934/

Comment 4

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

Comment on attachment 8909431 [details]
Bug 1400079 - Reduce Thunderbird Nightly Locale Count.

https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/180934/#review186256

Comment 5

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs/pushloghtml?changeset=d483a639e0cf