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Saturday, March 03, 2012

Need help translating into Armenian

Hi,
We need the following strings translated into Armenian for Firefox websites. Would you be able to give us a hand?

Please follow the same format and only translate the line that does not start with semi-colon ";":
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/1ShelKh8lc

Thanks,
Mozilla's Armenian Localization Team (Facebook group)

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Thursday, December 22, 2011

talos.zip, talos.json and you

I have deployed today a small change that modifies how we deploy talos.zip to the performance/talos jobs.

In short what the change does is this:

Download talos_from_source_code.py
Which downloads http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/raw-file/default/testing/talos/talos.json
Which contains where to download the talos.zip from (http://build.mozilla.org/talos/zips/talos.zip - accessible to build machines)

That's it. Nothing else. Nothing more.

How does this help?

Every new talos.zip we place under build.m.o will require a commit on the tree
Only when the change lands on the repo that talos.zip will be used
A newer talos.zip will only be used from that changeset onwards
Any regressions caused by the new talos.zip will be blamed to a changeset on the tree
Such changeset can be backed out by anyone without the need of releng

What are other side-effects?

We can run a talos.zip through the try server and use compare-talos
We don't need a downtime anymore to land a talos.zip
The new talos.zip cannot affect any other branches
We can run an old changeset with the talos.zip that was used for it
We can extend the talos.json file to control other moving parts like plugins

If we could summarize it in one sentence it would be:
"One changeset, one talos.zip"

This different model is not new as Jetpack already had it (jetpack-location.txt).
This model locks every changeset on a tree to a specific state of an external force.
In other words, we can configure parameters from inside tree.

Best regards,
Armen

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673131

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

How to exclude a file from being exported in Narro

Browse to the file
Uncheck "Export with project"

How to exclude a file from being exported in Narro

This is useful when there are files that require explicit approval from L10n release drivers.
We recently changed our search engines for Armenian and a Narro export reverted the changes. This caused Axel to file a regression bug for me to fix it.

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