This blog post is to look back at what I've done in the last 12 months and my first reaction is that I'm sad to see how little I've blogged in the last little bit! Nothing on the last four months :(
This last year has been good and strange year for me.
It's been good because of what I've managed to accomplish as well as seeing Firefox set itself up for great success (I've not been before as excited with our product as with Firefox 57; it looks and feels great!).
I also had almost 4 months of parental leave between my two kids (14 months apart). Thank you Mozilla!
It's been strange because I was caught in the middle of a re-org that affected me. I had been invested in the Platform Operations org for a while. Parental leaves have the side effect of having to pick up projects that no one had the time to pick up when you come back.
Overall I'm satisfied with what I accomplished. It was less focused in one domain (which is what I prefer) compared to the previous year, however, I had the opportunity to have an impact in important work.
With regards to work I've accomplished in the last year I can highlight the following:
- Fixed bugs assigned to me in the last year
- SETA
- On Q4 I refactored the old SETA ("production-alertmanager" branch) and mikeling's Heroku version ("heroku" branch) and integrated it into Treeherder (bug 1306709)
- rwood on Q1 graciously finished this project as I went into parental leave
- Some recent SETA follow ups:
- Bug 1386405 - macosx64-stylo jobs are always running
- Bug 1388862 - Add SETA management command to initialize local data
- Bug 1389524 - Not all stylo jobs are showing up in the JobPriority table
- Talos quantum pageload
- Evaluated and dropped web-page-replay
- New talos job using mitmproxy instead of a talos pageset (zip file with pages)
- Bug 1361462 - Mozharness support for Python3 binaries
- Thanks gbrown! He wrapped this up when I left on parental leave 4 weeks early
- Bug 1361732 - Mozharness support for Python3 venv creation
- AWFY
- I fixed a couple of issues and I helped with "the speedometer bug"
- The laptop running on production the speedometer benchmark had a 15 minutes timer to "blank the screen"
- This was sufficient to make the benchmark score lower
- This caused confusion on the engineers running speedometer on the Quantum reference laptop
- In order to test PGO builds (nightly actually) I added support for downloading builds from the TaskCluster index rather than querying Treeherder
- Last week the Treeherder logic stopped working and I switched everything to using TaskCluster
- Mozi/pulse_actions
- Significant keeping the lights on
- And now shutting it off:
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.tools/qasCliqygXg
- This year there's been a lot of platforms being ported to TaskCluster or using the Buildbot bridge
- This was expected to make mozci/pulse_actions obsolete
- Project management
- Wiki page for the project
- Part of the "Thunder Try - Improve end to end times"
- Sample blog post:
- Front end work
- Currently prototyping a diff viewer + code coverage tool with React
- See it here: https://armenzg.github.io/code_cov_experiments/
- Harness work
- Bug 1272083 - Downloading and unpacking should be performed in process
- Bug 1299702 - Add Linux32, Win32, Win64 and OSX artifact builds
- Tutorials
- Learned
- Docker work
- Created docker image that helps generate allthethings.json
- Very important artifact with metadata from Release Engineering Buildbot systems
- The importance of this file is dying (or already dead) as we move away from Buildbot
This work by Zambrano Gasparnian, Armen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
