1563564 - Add ability to export list of Normandy capabilities

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Normandy Client, enhancement)

Description

[Michael Cooper [:mythmon]]

In bug 1548631 we're adding capabilities for Normandy, as a way to do compatibility checks of recipes vs clients. We should add a way to get a list of capabilities out of a build of Firefox, so that we can publish it as a build artifact. This would make it easier to figure out what versions support what features. This could be eventually used to build a tool like caniuse.com.

I expect that a good first step here would be a mach command that outputs this data as a JSON structure. We could then adapt this to a Taskcluster job that could run with releases. I'm not sure where this data would live long term. Maybe something like Buildhub 2?

Comment 1

[Michael Cooper [:mythmon]]

Attachment: Bug 1563564 - Normandy capabilities as build artifact

This build artifact is only built on Linux and Windows. The process of making
it currently doesn't work on OSX builds, for unknown reasons. This is a subject
for future work. Normandy capabilities do not currently vary by platform, so it
is reasonable to not have this on every platform.

hg: changed toolkit/mozapps/installer/upload-files.mk

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/7356ddff15bc
Normandy capabilities as build artifact r=rdalal,froydnj

Comment 3

[Arthur Iakab [arthur_iakab]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/7356ddff15bc

Comment 4

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

Attachment: Bug 1563564 - Only package Normandy artifact when MOZ_NORMANDY is set.

Thunderbird builds do not support Normandy. This patch fixes build bustage
when building Thunderbird on linux64 and win64 by requiring that MOZ_NORMANDY
is defined as is the case when --project=browser.

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/0cec40c582f0
Only package Normandy artifact when MOZ_NORMANDY is set. r=froydnj

Comment 6

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/0cec40c582f0