709079 - create a user-friendly page of builds to download

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

I often hear a mozillian say "____ just landed in the ____ build" - e.g., "New CSS editor is in devtools build" or "New mouselock api is now in Graphics build" But I don't know where to get the specific builds. https://tbpl.mozilla.org/ is way too confusing.

So, can we make a https://builds.mozilla.org with all the latest available tree builds? UI can even copy https://nightly.mozilla.org/

Comment 1

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

We *could* get this by scraping FTP (which is what nightly.m.o does), Socorro actually has a scraper that handles all nightlies:
https://github.com/mozilla/socorro/blob/master/socorro/cron/ftpscraper.py

It would be better to get an authoritative list of trees from somewhere, like the buildbot database.

Laura might have some ideas on this, there are some related projects in flight that could provide the info needed.

Comment 2

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

This is more of a releng bug than TBPL, moving.

Comment 3

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

If this isn't a TBPL bug (linking to the actual build from the "B" link), I don't know what more we can do on our side. 

We already publish nightlies for all/most project branches that end up in latest-* directories on stage, but only some of the project branches are long-lived. The rest are rentable, so latest-elm may not mean the same thing next month as it does today.