On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 10/13/14 12:17 PM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: >> >> tl;dr: I have a tool for generating regression-range links from >> buildids. http://bsmedberg.github.io/firefox-regression-range-finder/ >> >> Often times when we're investigating regressions (crashes, etc), we have >> the build ID of the nightly where the regression started. But it's not >> the easiest thing in the world to turn that into an actual pushlog link >> which lists the commits in the regression range. >> >> To help fix this, I've created a tool that lets you paste in a buildid >> or two and automatically figures out the proper regression range link, >> and also links you to the nightly build directories. >> >> This tool is pretty hacky: it loads http://ftp.mozilla.org directory >> listings to find builds, and then loads the .txt files describing the >> revisions involved. If we ever changed webserver for ftp.mozilla.org the >> tool would likely break. But since it's something I do at least once a >> week and I know other QA people do this even more regularly, I figured >> it was worth automating. >> >> Right now the tool uses ES6 features `let` and `for...of` and so it only >> works in Firefox and not in Chrome. I figured for this audience that >> wouldn't be a problem. > > > FWIW, Robert Helmer wrote a tool for scraping the FTP server, storing the > relevant bits in a database, and exposing the result via HTTP+JSON. It used > to run on Mozilla's Stackato deployment, but he turned off his instance for > reasons I can't recall. The service was really useful: someone should look > into deploying this again. > > https://github.com/rhelmer/releases-api/
The code for this was pulled out of Socorro and modified to run as a standalone service, the reasons I decided not to go forward at that time were: 1) the code in Socorro was undergoing big changes and it was hard to keep in sync 2) I'd rather work with releng to expose this in a more direct way My plan at the time was to move Socorro over to using this service too (so point 1 would be moot) but I didn't have time to pull it off right then. I am ambivalent about the second point, we could probably put up a REST API that scrapes FTP now and change the way it works internally later without breaking the API. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
