Joel hinted at these changes in his post earlier in the week
(https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/PaJFBtvc3Vg/91Mb5DEwTGEJ),
but these are going to be major updates and some impact to developer
workflow is immediate, so I'm going to call them out here so people are
informed and can adapt if necessary.
1. Talos is moving into mozilla-central.
Yes, after years of requests, this is finally happening. The main
blocker recently was the need to support Talos for Android, and that's
going away (see below). Follow progress here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787200
We hope that this will make running talos tests locally easier for
developers, among other things. This is too large a change to do all at
once, so for now, the repository of record for talos is still
https://hg.mozilla.org/build/talos/ -- we will be sure to broadcast
loudly when that changes.
2. Talos for Android is going away.
The Panda platform that we've been using for this are reaching end of
life and this code has proven difficult to support. We are currently
working on a set of equivalent performance tests which will run on real
devices using the Autophone framework
(https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Projects/Autophone). More details
on this soon.
Meanwhile, Android talos is in serious maintenance mode, and only
critical fixes will be applied to keep it running. In fact, we've
already started to remove Android-specific code from talos tip. Should
the need arise, we will create a special Android-specific branch of
talos using the procedure documented here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1187684#c7
Will
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