Re: Building Firefox in TaskCluster

2015-09-09 Thread Gregory Szorc
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Dustin Mitchell wrote: > Thanks! Greg, I agree with a lot of what you have said. Docker has > some design issues, but it has advantages too. Among those, it caches > well and starts new containers very quickly. I don't think we could > match that speed with an

Re: Building Firefox in TaskCluster

2015-09-09 Thread Dustin Mitchell
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > I do. I wasn't suggesting we build images at job time: they should > definitely be pre-built and cached (OK, maybe there is a TaskCluster Graph > like job that ensures they are built and cached at the very beginning of > overall job execution

Re: Building Firefox in TaskCluster

2015-09-08 Thread Dustin Mitchell
Thanks! Greg, I agree with a lot of what you have said. Docker has some design issues, but it has advantages too. Among those, it caches well and starts new containers very quickly. I don't think we could match that speed with an approach that was manipulating individual files. If you think of

Re: Building Firefox in TaskCluster

2015-09-04 Thread Axel Hecht
On 9/5/15 12:06 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: First, thank you for spending the time to compose this. It is an excellent write-up. Responses inline. On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Dustin Mitchell mailto:dus...@mozilla.com>> wrote: I'd like to get some feedback on changes that we (release engi

Re: Building Firefox in TaskCluster

2015-09-04 Thread Gregory Szorc
First, thank you for spending the time to compose this. It is an excellent write-up. Responses inline. On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Dustin Mitchell wrote: > I'd like to get some feedback on changes that we (release engineering > and the taskcluster team) are planning around how we build Fire