582980 - have one unified script that is a consumable product to download latest builds

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 628685

(Testing :: General, defect)

Description

[Jeff Hammel]

There are at least five separate pieces of code (six if you count buildbot) whose intent is to either download the latest compiled version of a product or to print the URL of said product:

   - http://hg.mozilla.org/automation/getlatest-tinderbox/
   - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528064
   - http://test.bclary.com/bin/download.sh
   - http://code.google.com/p/mozregression/source/browse/trunk/runnightly.py
   - http://hg.mozilla.org/users/tmielczarek_mozilla.com/nightly-db/file/tip/scrapenightly.py

There are probably many more that I'm not aware of.

In fact, there should be only one.  A single unified and consumable product should be created for this purpose.  The product should be presented in such a way that users/developers know that there is no need to write more instances of the same software.  The duplicate products should be obseleted.

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Note that the intention of the nightly-db code in my user repo is to populate a db:
http://ted.mielczarek.org/mozilla/nightly/
(I think the cron job got disabled in a server migration, so it's a bit behind the times.)

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Also, buildbot doesn't count because it doesn't have to scrape anything. It knows where the build slave uploaded the build, and just passes that URL to the test slaves.