Hello, Currently the Mozilla CI pipeline for Linux(32/64) runs on a 'hacked' Ubuntu 16.04 LTS image, last updated sometime around 6-8 months ago.
Meanwhile, the world has moved on to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (released April 2018) with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS approaching fast (projected April 2020). Within the Linux ecosystem, it can be argued that Ubuntu represents a large chunk (if not the majority) of users that use Firefox on the desktop. While continuing to test on Ubuntu 16.04 will suffice for the time being, it is time to being exploring an upgrade path such that our CI pipeline better reflects the user base. I had began work in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1565332 to upgrade the Ubuntu 16.04 images to Ubuntu 18.04 when a comment was received suggesting to use Debian as an alternative. The main advantage of switching to Debian is supposedly the more deterministic builds that are easier to maintain. It is claimed that using Debian would eliminate the sort of issues that led to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1503756 in the first place, for example. Conversely, the main disadvantage of switching to Debian would be the lack of drivers and other required packages that Ubuntu provides. The full scope of work needed to make a Debian-based image workable with current CI tests is unknown at this time. For comparison, please take a look at the Treeherder pushes for the following: Debian https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&group_state=expanded&selectedJob=257046308&revision=62e136be76826fb5df1e17f53bebc00651f67f52. Ubuntu 18.04 https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&group_state=expanded&revision=36c472e4eb1012b35821676bd8e3b1a7aca93740 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
