Super, thanks!

On 20 Jan 2014, at 09:21, Chris AtLee <cat...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> 
> This shouldn't require any changes to developers' build process. It should 
> make it easier to reproduce the builds that happen as part of our automation 
> though!
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
> 
> On 17:02, Fri, 17 Jan, Chris Mills wrote:
>> Does this change mean any changes are needed to the B2G build process? I’m 
>> just wondering if I need to update any of the Build instructions on MDN.
>> 
>> Chris Mills
>>  Senior tech writer || Mozilla
>> developer.mozilla.org || MDN
>>  cmi...@mozilla.com || @chrisdavidmills
>> 
>> On 17 Jan 2014, at 07:58, Chris AtLee <cat...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Yesterday we switched how B2G device builds on the trunk trees [1] get 
>>> built.
>>> 
>>> We are keeping copies of each device's manifest up-to-date in the tree will 
>>> the revisions for each project fully specified. e.g. 
>>> https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/b2g-inbound/file/fa8e7793c44b/b2g/config/mako/sources.xml
>>> 
>>> In the background, we have tools running that checkout the b2g-manifests 
>>> repo, and then for each device load the official upstream manifest, follow 
>>> all the includes, and resolve all revision references in the manifest to 
>>> absolute commit ids, and then land those into gecko.
>>> 
>>> This will be a big help to sheriffs, as it pins down the revisions of 
>>> various b2g repositories used for each gecko change.
>>> 
>>> Please let me know if you see any problems with the builds as a result of 
>>> this change. Work is being tracked in bug 899969 [2].
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> Chris
>>> 
>>> [1] b2g-inbound, mozilla-central, mozilla-inbound, etc.
>>> [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=899969
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>> 
>> 

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