Thanks to landfill.m.o and Reed Loden for the server space, and to Peter van der Woude for
the extensive prettification. Please get in touch if you find anything that's wrong, odd, or
smells funny (email address at bottom of page).
Quick key: File names are stamped with the
start time for the build in PST/PDT, using the format
YYYYMMDD_hhmm_<original filename>.
More info below.
The goal is to have a few days of hourly builds from the Firefox trunk, so that regressions can be
pinned down to a smaller group of checkins than is possible with the nightlies.
The files are named
YYYYMMDD_hhmm_firefox-... based on the time the build
started (Mozilla time, PST/PDT). A "
_N_" is added between the timestamp and original filename
for builds which are clobbers (complete rebuilds, ie nightlies, "respins"). See the matching Cached Checkins link for
a list of fixes in each build, or use the Bonsai Query link to ask for them live.
An html file of cached checkins and an .url file for the live query are added to the zip files.
Currently we are watching the tinderbox
fx-linux-tbox on the
Firefox tree, and getting builds from the
hourly dir on the ftp,
supplemented with
nightly builds if
required (an hourly isn't pushed to ftp on the nightly run).
Known issues:
Limitations:
- Vulnerable to the same mid-checkin issues as tinderboxen, so only part of a set of changes are picked up
- The bonsai query used to test for checkins also returns changes in mail/ and other places that aren't part of the
Firefox build. So some builds may appear to contain changes when they do not - inspect the checkins.html file before
downloading a build.
Recent changes:
- 2007-09-04: fxnewref-win32-tbox changed name to fx-win32-tbox, same for fxnewref-linux-tbox but missed a few
builds.
- 2007-08-15: win32 tinderbox changed to fxnewref-win32- using MozillaBuild & VC8 SP1 from 2349 build.
- 2007-07-21: Linux box changed to fxnewref-linux-tbox from
fx-linux-tbox 9 days ago, will rebuild again.
- 2007-06-27: Linux box changed to fx-linux-tbox from argo-vm two weeks ago, archive will
rebuild slowly.
- 2007-02-11: Split the platforms out to their own pages to improve page load time.
Win32 is the default platform.
- 2007-02-01: Support Linux and Mac as well as Win32.
Contact: Nick Thomas (IRC: nthomas, email: nrthomas at gmail.com)