Note that unless we use ehsan's tree, testing aurora will be unwieldy for developers. The use of separate trees for m-c and m-a is somewhat developer unfriendly.
The commit to b2g's manifest only affects nightly builds, however. Developers will continue to develop on mozilla-central, which mirrors the current model on desktop. -Michael Wu ----- Original Message ----- > mwu committed > https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/b2g-manifest/commit/619a55c60eb6b15ebce52afe08f889855036fc64 > already. If you've got concerns about the workflow effect on devs, > we should probably back it out in the short term. > > Thanks for following up on this John. > > -Alex > > On Oct 9, 2012, at 1:44 PM, John Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We already have a nightly branch of b2g-manifest. It's easy to > > switch from mozilla-central to mozilla-aurora on both nightly and > > master. My only concern is what happens to the local repositories > > that developers are using. Switching repositories for gecko > > causes a lot of churn. Because the releng maintained git mirrors > > use out of tree branching (i.e. separate repositories) instead of > > an in-tree branch, we need to be careful about how we change the > > manifests as there is a possibility that developer's local > > repositories are messed up by this switch. > > > > I am testing this change and will reply to this thread when I have > > more information on how we can make this change with minimal > > headache. When we have a plan, I will make the changes to the > > manifests. > > > > John > > > > > > On Oct 9, 2012, at 9:55 AM, Jonathan Griffin wrote: > > > >> Alex, > >> > >>> Jonathan will need to move Nightly/Stable builds over to > >>> mozilla-aurora from mozilla-central for tonight's build, given > >>> the FF18 base. > >>> > >> > >> The nightly builds utilize the build manifests at > >> https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/b2g-manifest to select repos. I > >> believe these likely need to change to point to the aurora > >> branch. If we do that, then the builders will pick up this > >> change automatically. mwu owns these. > >> > >> If there is some reason not to update those, then I can hack the > >> builder to use aurora instead. > >> > >> Jonathan > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> dev-b2g mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g > _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
