385785 - Consider uploading breakpad symbols for hourly builds

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Release Engineering :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

A counterpoint to bug 383764, it would be useful for testers if we uploaded Breakpad symbols from hourly builds.  Currently we have Breakpad enabled in those builds, but no corresponding debug symbols, so any crash reports submitted are pretty worthless.  Since we have a lot of space for symbols, and symbols aren't all that big, we can probably afford to store some hourly symbols.  If we implement this, we should only keep ~24 hours worth of hourly symbols to avoid huge overhead.

Comment 1

[timeless]

i'd suggest closer to a week for a retention policy. i tend to download a build and use it for that long....

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

My vote for a week aswell, 24h is way too short.
For people that work and sleep, some of us do, it means you loose 16+ hours of builds around midnight, leaving you with just 8 hours to produce a usefull breakpad report.

Comment 3

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Do you want to do this ? It's going to depend on a cleanup mechanism.

Comment 4

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I do, and yeah, we need to clean up.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

This came up in #maildev recently. I suspect thunderbird would like to have this for the same reasons.

Comment 6

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Decided against this. We fixed Talos (bug 480577) by uploading a symbol zip alongside the builds. (bug 478221) I don't see a compelling enough reason to make this work now.