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End of an era – no more Thunderbird 2.0 machines, or cvs machines!

Jun 29

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05-apr-2007: Launch of Thunderbird 2.0
08-dec-2009: Launch of Thunderbird 3.0
24-jun-2010: Launch of Thunderbird 3.1
25-jun-2010: Formal “ok to poweroff” Thunderbird 2.0 machines
29-jun-2010: Thunderbird 2.0 machines are finally offline

Powering off these machines is a massive milestone for RelEng, because:
1) These are the last cvs-based machines being used in production. Because these were cvs-based, they had a really early version of release-automation, which means its a great relief to not have to do any more TB2.0.0.x releases.
2) These are also the last of the dedicated-unique machines – everything else is using our shared pool-o-slaves infrastructure. Its a great relief to not have to worry about keeping spare long-since-discontinued PPC xserves around in case an old dedicated-unique machines dies in production and closes the tree without warning.

Thunderbird 3.1.x work continues full pace, over on hg. You can get more details here. As usual, any remaining users on TB2 can major update to TB3.1 simply by doing “Help->CheckForUpdates”.

NOTE: if you think you need any of these machines for something else, please comment in bug#574901. Now. Right now! Before I reach my trusty axe.

tc
John.