On this update, we will look at the progress made since our second update.

A reminder that this quarter’s main focus is on:

* Debugging tests on interactive workers (only Linux on TaskCluster)
* Improve end to end times on Try (Thunder Try project)

For all bugs and priorities you can check out the project management page
for it:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/EngineeringProductivity/Projects/Debugging_UX_improvements


Status update:

Debugging tests on interactive workers

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Tracking bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1262260


Accomplished recently:

* Blogged about it:
https://ahal.ca/blog/2016/taskcluster-interactive-loaner/
* Refactored mochitest harness to use --flavor (for similar UX to existing
mach command)
* Started looking into test resolving outside of the build system

Upcoming:

* Mach workflow for wpt and Mn
* Mach workflow for Android tests


Thunder Try - Improve end to end times on try

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Project #1 - Artifact builds on automation

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Tracking bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1284882

Nothing new in this edition.


Project #2 - S3 Cloud Compiler Cache

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Tracking bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280641

Accomplished recently:

* Doing some manual testing of the rewritten s3 cache code on try currently.


Project #3 - Metrics

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Tracking bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1286856

Accomplished recently:

* Finished a very earlier prototype of an “Infraherder” dashboard, which
(currently) lets you visualize the last jobs to finish on try:
http://wlach.github.io/treeherder/ui/infra.html#/last-finished
* Published an RFC in order to solicit more feedback:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SrlJQQ3qWuM0tvruG6Lr59t3hJ4XRUoMIrIRQYvwu9A/edit?usp=sharing

Upcoming:

* Get more feedback on Infraherder, figure out if we want to proceed with
this approach


Other

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* Bug 1290282 - Changed all Linux build EC2 instances used by TaskCluster
from c3/m3/r3.2xlarge to c4/m4.4xlarge - ~40% time reduction in many build
tasks
* Bug 1272083 - Downloading and unzipping should be performed as data is
received
** Prototype ready to be integrated into Mozharness


[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1290282
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1272083
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