This was discussed on the Platform meeting without any objections: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2012-11-06#Roundtable
Should I make more noise about this so it does not get missed? Should I blog? I sometimes fear how the press can misinterpret our posts. FTR, asa, ehsan and jimm have in direct threads said that this plan is good. On Tuesday, November 6, 2012 9:00:29 AM UTC-5, Armen Zambrano G. wrote: > Hi all, > > IT and RelEng are working on creating a new test infrastructure to make > > obsolete our current Rev3 machines. To better meet our needs, we want > > to make sure that we test Firefox 32-bit on the right set of platforms. > > Mozilla currently has continuous integration running (on tbpl.mozilla.org) > > for unit tests and talos for the 32-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows 7. > > We currently do not run tests on the 64-bit version of these platforms [1]. > > > > We now are planning on adding the 64-bit version of Windows 8 to our > continuous > > integration matrix. The proposal is to run Firefox 32-bit on Windows XP > 32-bit, > > Windows 7 32-bit and Windows 8 64-bit. > > > > We would like to know if there are any reasons to also run tests on > > Windows 8 *32-bit*. This does not mean that Mozilla would not qualify that > > Firefox *32-bit* works properly on Windows 8 *32-bit* through various manual > > QA and testing methods; it means we would not run automated tests per > developer checkin on this platform. The main reason for skipping Windows 8 > 32-bit is to > > avoid the costs of maintaining another two hundred machines for our continuous > > integration for this platform. > > > > In our testing and due diligence phase, we believe that we will not lack any > > coverage by only testing on *64-bit* windows 8. If this is an incorrect > > assessment please let us know. We're aware that there might be edge cases > where some tests would not catch things for Windows 8 *32-bit*. This is a > risk that > > we are willing to take the same way that we have been comfortable with only > > running tests on Win7 *32-bit* and not on Win7 *64-bit* version (not that past > > decisions should blind us). > > > > I hope this makes sense and please let us know if there are any gotchas or > you > > have any questions. > > > > Best regards, > > Armen Zambrano > > Mozilla's Release Engineering > > > > > > PS = Creating a new test infrastructure for Linux is also coming but it is > off > > topic for this thread. > > PPS = This post is not about changing our system requirements [2]. > > > > > > [1] We also have five Windows 7 64-bit machines which were left around just in > > case Firefox *64-bit* became important again and we would not need to > start > > from scratch. > > [2] http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/system-requirements.html _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
