[Buildbot-devel] Mozilla moving away from buildbot?

[Dan Kegel]

I seem to recall Google did something similar.
- Dan

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at v.igoro.us> wrote:
> I can fill in a little background here.  Mozilla's been using the same
> version of Buildbot - 0.8.2, for something like four years now.  So,
> in a way, Mozilla hasn't been using Buildbot for several years now.
>
> Work to move away from or beyond Buildbot is really just an effort to
> modernize.  We're faced with the choice of contributing to a project
> which serves a large pool of users, adding features in a way that they
> can be accepted upstream, or starting fresh and building a tool that
> solves exactly the problem you have and no more.  Framed that way, the
> choice to try to implement a custom CI system makes a lot of sense
> (much as I wish it was otherwise).  The result will, of course, be
> open source, but as always, there's a big gulf between "you can modify
> and distribute the source" and "this might actually be useful to you".
>
> It's important to note, too, that this is an experimental initiative
> within Mozilla.  Sometimes things don't work out.  TaskCluster might
> turn out to be impractical in the face of the crazy detailed
> requirements release engineers are familiar with.  Time will tell.
>
> Dustin