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Please use TryChooser

Recently there were some improvements to the trychooser and the landing of those changes led to a couple of bugs[1][2] being discovered and quickly fixed.  It is thanks to those who are regularly using...

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Try Server Road Map - Q1 2010

The other day this post by Google with slides detailing their Chrome release cycle speed up was going around and it mentioned how try and CI were key to their success. It got me thinking that it's time...

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Automated Try Results Posted to Bugzilla - A request for input on what the...

Lately I've been working on a a script which can check your try syntax for a bug number and a setting asking for --post-to-bugzilla.  If you've provided both, your try server results can be posted...

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Volunteers needed for upcoming HTML5/Open Video tutorial

I'm hoping if you're reading this that you might be interested in volunteering this coming Saturday to help 12-16 year old girls at the upcoming Dare 2B Digital conference learn about HTML5 and open...

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Bay Area Video Coalition - Teaching Open Video Part 1

Last night was the first meeting of The Factory and Mozilla. The partnership if a result of work between Mozilla Drumbeat and Web Made Movies. Ben Moskowitz and Brett Gaylor invited myself and Atul...

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Hey BBC would you like to know how releasing software works?

Dear BBC,Today on the front page of your technology section you said that downloads for Firefox 4 have been lower than they were for Firefox 3 and that: The lower figure may be explained by the...

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Captain Destructo Breaks Everything

Alternate title ideas: "It's not all s/Tryserver/Try"  or "What I should have done, and didn't"I bet you get the point by now. Today I caused a fairly lengthy, unnecessary downtime on Try.  Now that...

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A PyStar Supernova in the Sky

The first Bay Area PyStar event has come and gone. I'm finally getting a moment to regroup and ponder all the trial and error of being the organizer of this event as well as having time to look at some...

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Assisted/Automated Landing - Designing the Systems

Ehsan's blog post wishing for assisted landings on mozilla-central started a lot of people talking about this being a very desirable and useful tool for developers, where they could set a flag in...

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Update on the Auto/Assisted Landing System

Almost a week since the post introducing the design attempt for auto/assisted branch landings via Bugzilla and Try and guess what? We re-wrote everything!The details are in the wiki, bugs have been...

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Use Try? Read this.

Two updates to Try are about to go into effect which enforce asking for what you want using the try syntax and configuring how much email you want to get with your results.  Read more below.Bug 661409...

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Thoughts on cultivating an "Everyone is Remote" attitude

As I write this I am working from Paris and our team timezone spread looks like this: Rangoria, New Zealand: UTC (+12) Bucharest, Romania: UTC (+3) Istanbul, Turkey: UTC (+3) Paris, France: UTC (+2)...

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Tree Closing Downtime Notice - 4am - 8am PDT Thursday June 16, 2011

Trees will be closed for downtime so that we can land the following:1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662396 -- Fix time on dm-wwwbuild01 2....

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A quick morning rant about "gender" and data collection

This morning I read that Google+ is going to make your name and "gender" required to be public if you want to participate.  This bothers me for several reasons:Web sites and forms notoriously say...

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Try results to the bug(s) of your choice upon completion

The TrySyntax helper and TryChooser wiki docs have both been updated to reflect the new option when pushing to try where you can now ask to have your complete summary of results (and a link to the tbpl...

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Mozilla Seeks Program Manager for Open Web Innovation Incubator

Ok, I'm a little biased - full disclosure: I work for Mozilla.  But even if I didn't I suspect I'd be impressed with the amount of amazing innovation and hustle that Mozilla's community puts out...

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Want to help? Encouraging community contributions to Release Engineering

In a timely confluence with Mozilla's new Steward initiative, I'm preparing to get some community contributors engaged with some of the projects we work on in Release Engineering.  A fair amount of our...

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Where Are My $project-branch Nightly Builds?

Did you know that we don't build a fresh nightly on a branch unless there's fresh code?  Well, now you do!  In the interest of saving even _more_ resources and network bandwidth so that we can...

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New to IRC? Never tried it?

Do you shy away from IRC because it seems daunting, complicated, or completely foreign to you? A pretty large chunk of the Mozilla online community lives and breathes in IRC so I encourage you to come...

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My First Startup Weekend: Women 2.0 Startup Weekend

On November 18th, 2011 I jumped into the deep end of the Bay Area startup culture I have been lurking on the periphery of for the past two years of living here. After going to my first Geek Girl Dinner...

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