Armen Zambrano's battlefield: Looking back

Around this time of the year Mozilla employees are evaluated to see if there are any compensation changes or promotions. It is also during this time we're encouraged to look back and reflect on what we have accomplished. Partly to help drive conversations.

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

Some of my work tracked on GitHub

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