Comments on: Unittest and l10n moved from “dedicated specialized slaves” to “pool of identical slaves” http://oduinn.com/blog/2009/03/16/unittest-and-l10n-moved-from-dedicated-specialized-slaves-to-pool-of-identical-slaves/ Wed, 16 May 2012 01:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: John O’Duinn’s Soapbox » Welcome (back) Lukas! http://oduinn.com/blog/2009/03/16/unittest-and-l10n-moved-from-dedicated-specialized-slaves-to-pool-of-identical-slaves/#comment-31708 John O’Duinn’s Soapbox » Welcome (back) Lukas! Thu, 21 May 2009 06:33:42 +0000 http://oduinn.com/2009/03/16/unittest-and-l10n-moved-from-dedicated-specialized-slaves-to-pool-of-identical-slaves/#comment-31708 [...] If you’ve never met Lukas, you should know that last summer, Lukas arrived for her internship, and had barely unpacked when we handed her the entire unittest infrastructure without warning. With very little guidance, she took it all on. Lukas worked non-stop stabilizing and streamlining machine configs in a million-and-one little details, chasing intermittent unittest failures to figure out if they were caused by code bugs, testware bugs, RelEng bugs or IT bugs… or a combination! She was so great, we hired her as a part-time contractor when she was heading back to Seneca. In that role, she worked with catlee and myself to consolidate all the build and unittest machines into one shared pool (details here). This project massively simplified life in RelEng, improved end-to-end turnaround time for developers; more importantly, it was a pre-req to getting unittests running on TryServer, and also to separating out build from unittest for faster turnaround times (details here, here and here). All massive stuff.We’re delighted she’s graduated and is coming back to Mozilla. If you’ve never met Lukas before, go find her in the Toronto office or on irc (lsblakk) and say hello. [...] [...] If you’ve never met Lukas, you should know that last summer, Lukas arrived for her internship, and had barely unpacked when we handed her the entire unittest infrastructure without warning. With very little guidance, she took it all on. Lukas worked non-stop stabilizing and streamlining machine configs in a million-and-one little details, chasing intermittent unittest failures to figure out if they were caused by code bugs, testware bugs, RelEng bugs or IT bugs… or a combination! She was so great, we hired her as a part-time contractor when she was heading back to Seneca. In that role, she worked with catlee and myself to consolidate all the build and unittest machines into one shared pool (details here). This project massively simplified life in RelEng, improved end-to-end turnaround time for developers; more importantly, it was a pre-req to getting unittests running on TryServer, and also to separating out build from unittest for faster turnaround times (details here, here and here). All massive stuff.We’re delighted she’s graduated and is coming back to Mozilla. If you’ve never met Lukas before, go find her in the Toronto office or on irc (lsblakk) and say hello. [...]

]]> By: Gerv http://oduinn.com/blog/2009/03/16/unittest-and-l10n-moved-from-dedicated-specialized-slaves-to-pool-of-identical-slaves/#comment-24008 Gerv Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:06:01 +0000 http://oduinn.com/2009/03/16/unittest-and-l10n-moved-from-dedicated-specialized-slaves-to-pool-of-identical-slaves/#comment-24008 You rock :-) Gerv You rock :-)

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