498859 - Provide debug builders on try server

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Messaging Graveyard :: Try Server, enhancement)

Description

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

From time to time QA people need to provide Debug builds for outside tester to provide stack traces etc ....

I'de like non programmers to be able to request debug builds (no patch needed - no mozconfig needed) - so triagger could do that by themselves and get stack from users.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

FTR the current instructions on how we do this are here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Infrastructure/TryServer#Doing_a_debug_build

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Changing the result slightly, but keeping the essence the same.

Rather than having a config option, what we should do is just to do the same as Firefox - have a near clone of the production system, i.e. have both opt and debug builders.

Therefore, what I suggest is:

1) Set up debug builders (aka "Leak Test") on try server.
2) Get them uploading their builds and tests in a packaged test style.

The two items above will resolve this bug. We can then go onto fixing bug 620379.

Comment 3

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

(In reply to Mark Banner (:standard8) from comment #2)
> Changing the result slightly, but keeping the essence the same.
> 
> Rather than having a config option, what we should do is just to do the same
> as Firefox - have a near clone of the production system, i.e. have both opt
> and debug builders.
> 
> Therefore, what I suggest is:
> 
> 1) Set up debug builders (aka "Leak Test") on try server.

Done.

> 2) Get them uploading their builds and tests in a packaged test style.

Done.