489483 - Add "periodic clobbers" steps to our buildbots

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Release Engineering, enhancement)

Description

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Firefox and Thunderbird have these.

Bug 489336 comment 5:
{
From  Robert Kaiser   2009-04-21 08:25:41 PDT

[...] it dawned to me that we sometimes had problems with dep test builds [...]
Let me clobber the test machine to see if this helps.
}

Comment 1

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

In the same way as we are doing bug 494676,
do you know what SeaMonkey(-Ports) buildbot misses? (factory code to sync', config to update, ...)

Comment 2

[Robert Kaiser]

Possibly because I have disabled clobberer at the moment. I don't care much for this right now, this is still targeted LATEr in my brain, there's a whole list of more pressing stuff, including release automation.

Comment 3

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Ftr, missing this feature is confusing wrt package(-compare) reports:
i.e., when I checked bug 563012 patch Av1, all Linux/MacOSX/Windows builders were reporting the same thing, except MacOSX dep builds :-/

Comment 4

[Robert Kaiser]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Ftr, missing this feature is confusing wrt package(-compare) reports

I would shout at you loudly if you would go clobbering all dep builds every time you want to check for inconsistencies of packaging!

Comment 5

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

We now have periodic clobbers setup, but we more often hit our free-space-clobbers than this. It was added with the clobberer setup.