683415 - Optimisations for release automation

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Release Engineering :: Release Automation: Other, defect, P3)

Description

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

In the updates step we eventually get to
- create partials and fix up perms
- upload partials
- upload test snippets
- backupsnip for test snippets
- pushsnip for test snippets
- upload release snippets
- upload beta snippets (if applicable)
- compare release to releasetest  
- wait 5 minutes for NFS cache to clear
- send email to r-d
- dependent builders start 
  * update verify builders
  * check permissions
  * antivirus

We can re-order this to remove dead-times when automation/QA could be doing things:
- create partials and fix up perms
- upload partials
- upload test snippets
- backupsnip for test snippets
- pushsnip for test snippets
- wait for 2 minutes for NFS cache to clear
- send email to r-d
- trigger builders
  * check permissions
  * antivirus
- upload release snippets
- upload beta snippets (if applicable)
- compare release to releasetest  
- trigger builders
  * update verify builders

Comment 1

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

found in triage.

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Bulk move of bugs to Release Automation component.

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Mass move of bugs to Release Automation component.

Comment 4

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Is this still relevant in the partials-at-build-time world?

Comment 5

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

For 12.0b1 there was an 11 minute delay between end of the pushsnip and the updates job finishing. Maybe a bit more if you consider only first half or so of pushsnip is useful right now, but that'll change when we finally switch to PHX. --> WONTFIX