Ed Morley wrote:
> On 19 January 2013 15:01:09, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
>> dbaron posted a summary of our options on release-drivers
> 
> Please can that be posted somewhere public for those of us not on 
> release-drivers?

Not seeing anything that need be kept private, I'll forward a post or
two here:



----- Original Message -----
> From: "L. David Baron" <stripped>
> To: release-drivers
> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 4:34:34 AM
> Subject: extended Aurora tree closure and options for reopening
(disabling      testpilot extension?)
>
> The mozilla-aurora tree is currently closed (and has been since
> Wednesday) due to a set of permanent test failures.  Failure to
> reopen the tree and allow fixes to land puts Firefox 20 at risk
> (with the risk increasing with the length of the closure).
>
> I wrote a detailed description of the situation and laid out the
> known options for moving forward in:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=823989#c52
> (with a few clarifications in the two comments after).
>
> The prior discussion of this issue that I'm aware of is mostly in
> that bug and in
>
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/fffQo85eM8Y
>
> Of the three options I present, the one that I think has the
> strongest support and least opposition among the developers
> investigating the problems is option 2:
>
>   # (2) Disable the testpilot extension on aurora using the patch in
>   # comment 48, and reopen mozilla-aurora.  comment 43 says that
>   # we're not currently running any studies using testpilot (and
>   # also that ehsan supports this solution).
>
> I think release-drivers should be aware that this is currently the
> leading option; I'm not sure who should make the final call here,
> but probably somebody a bit more informed about testpilot than I am.
>
>
> (It's currently Saturday morning in London, and I plan to spend the
> weekend as a tourist, so I expect to be only intermittenly online
> today and tomorrow.)
>
> -David
> _______________________________________________
> release-drivers mailing list



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Keybl" <stripped>
> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 7:36:36 PM
> Subject: Re: extended Aurora tree closure and options for reopening
(disabling      testpilot extension?)
>
> Let's move forward with option 2 to re-open the tree, and continue
> investigating how to find final resolution allowing test pilot to be
> re-enabled on Aurora. Cheng and Jinghua - please let us know when
> you were hoping to push out the next survey, so we can put a date on
> re-enabling.
>
> -Alex

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