Running Windows 8 tests visibly on tbpl

A couple of weeks ago we announced that we were running Windows 8 test jobs on the Cedar tree but we're now also running it on mozilla-central, mozilla-inbound and try.

We have 3 types of jobs hidden for these reasons:

• Reftests will soon land on mozilla-inbound and be fixed
• Debug mochitest-2 and debug mochitest-other are intermittently failing (more often than Windows XP and Windows 7)

If you want to lend a hand with these last issues please visit bug 847447 and see how you can help.

We will soon enable it on every other branch besides mozilla-esr17 in bug 847471.

It's good to see these running officially :)

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Running Firefox unit tests on Windows 8

Last week, we started running Windows 8 unit tests in the Cedar development tree:
https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Cedar&jobname=Rev3 WINNT 6.2

Unfortunately a bunch of jobs are not passing all tests :( We have filed "Bug 847447 - Figure out list of failing win8 jobs and chase them down" to figure how to solve those unit test failures.
If you can give jimm and others a hand with those bugs that would be greatly appreciated!

Once we add the remaining Windows 8 machines to the pool of machines, we we will enable the test jobs on every other development tree and hide them until green. This way, we can have a better idea of the load to expect.

To track the project as a whole, visit: "[Tracking bug] test 32bit windows build (which include metro functionality) on 64bit version of win8".

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