617761 - Nightlies from places branch update back to regular mozilla-central nightlies

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Matheus Kerschbaum]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101208 Firefox/4.0b8pre
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Bug 616320 and bug 617060 turned on nightlies for places branch, but currently when checking for updates they will check against m-c trunk rather than the next places nightly.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Note that this behavior is fine when we go and disable nightlies on Places again, but I'd really like updates to the Places branch.

Also, to anyone using them right now, Sync is not going to interact properly with the changes, but that is getting fixed in bug 616001.  I've have a blog post up once that lands asking for more testers.

Comment 2

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

I don't have time to work on this but the steps are
* make the nightly mozconfig use channel 'nightly-places' instead of plain 'nightly'. This requires breaking the symlinks we have in place for linux and mac
* in buildbot-configs/mozilla/config.py change 
 BRANCHES['places']['aus2_base_upload_dir'] = 'fake'
to 
 BRANCHES['places']['aus2_base_upload_dir'] = '/opt/aus2/incoming/2/Firefox/places'
 so that we upload the snippets in a unique bucket
* for the AUS config, 
 * add 'nightly-places' to
  http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/webtools/aus/xml/inc/config-dist.php#116
 * add a mapping from nightly-places to places
  http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/webtools/aus/xml/inc/config-dist.php#140

All builds once step one landed would then update to later places builds, earlier builds would still go to m-c.

When we disable Places nightlies we'd update the the AUS config so that 'nightly-places' is mapped to 'mozilla-central'.

Comment 3

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

Thanks for the steps Nick. Who should we talk to about getting this fixed? It definitely reduces the utility of having nightlies.

Comment 4

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

Does bug 619614 mean this is no longer needed?

Comment 5

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Does bug 619614 mean this is no longer needed?
I would like it to be fixed so when we need it in the future, we don't have this problem again.

Comment 6

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Will the AUS changes we're planning to make to move people between different project branches take care of this?

Comment 7

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

Aiui, the places branch is disabled currently, with no immediate plans to reenable.
If I'm closing this bug in error, please let me know.