On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 6:39 PM, William Lachance <wlacha...@mozilla.com>
wrote:

> On 2015-11-06 5:56 PM, Mark Finkle wrote:
>
>> I also think measuring build times, and other build related stats, would
>> be
>> useful. I'd like to see Mozilla capturing those stats for developer builds
>> though. I'm less interested in build times for the automation. That data
>> is
>> already looked at by the automation team.
>>
>
> Chris Manchester has volunteered to look into submitting build times in
> automation to perfherder here:
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1222549
>
> I actually do think that perfherder has some advantages over the existing
> grafana system, in that it has the capability of being sheriffed easily
> down to the per-commit level by anyone (not just releng/ateam).
>
> We'll see I guess! The proof will be in bugs filed and fixed when
> regressions occur. I really think developer build times are strongly
> correlated with build times in automation, so my hope is that there will be
> a trickle-down effect if this system proves useful.
>

Yes, I agree this is a better approach. Having the build system produce
logs or artifacts than can be ingested by perfherder is a more flexible
model than the one we're currently using.
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