How many 10.7 machines do we operate in that pool? Andreas
On Apr 25, 2013, at 10:30 AM, "Armen Zambrano G." <arme...@mozilla.com> wrote: > (please follow up through mozilla.dev.planning) > > Hello all, > I have recently been looking into our Mac OS X test wait times which have > been bad for many months and progressively getting worst. > Less than 80% of test jobs on OS X 10.6 and 10.7 are able to start > within 15 minutes of being requested. > This slows down getting tests results for OS X and makes tree closures longer > if we have Mac OS X test back logs. > Unfortunately, we can't buy any more revision 4 Mac minis (they're not sold > anymore) as Apple discontinues old hardware as new ones comes out. > > In order to improve the turnaround time for Mac testing, we have to look into > reducing our test load in one of these two OSes (both of them run on revision > 4 minis). > We have over a third of our OS X users running 10.6. Eventually, down the > road, we could drop 10.6 but we still have a significant amount of our users > there; even though Mac stopped serving them major updates since July 2011 [1]. > > Our current Mac OS X distribution looks like this: > * 10.6 - 43% > * 10.7 - 30% > * 10.8 - 27% > OS X 10.8 is the only version that is growing. > > In order to improve our wait times, I propose that we stop testing on tbpl > per-checkin [2] on OS X 10.7 and re-purpose the 10.7 machines as 10.6 to > increase our capacity. > > Please let us know if this plan is unacceptable and needs further discussion. > > best regards, > Armen Zambrano - Mozilla's Release Engineering > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
