{"id":2545,"date":"2013-03-27T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T23:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2013-03-27T10:00:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T23:00:58","slug":"an-interesting-use-of-the-try-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/2013\/03\/27\/an-interesting-use-of-the-try-server\/","title":{"rendered":"An interesting use of the try server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a patch that&#8217;s ready to land.\u00a0 I wanted to ensure that it compiles on all platforms.\u00a0 I also wanted to ensure that it passes all tests, but I felt that running all the tests on one of the tier 1 platforms was enough.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no way to specify this combination in a single try server push, but I realized I could do it with two separate pushes.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/trychooser.pub.build.mozilla.org\/\">TryChooser<\/a> told me that Linux64 was the least-loaded platform, so I did a <a href=\"https:\/\/tbpl.mozilla.org\/?tree=Try&amp;rev=f18585c1cb46\">try run<\/a> with all the tests on that platform:<\/p>\n<pre>try: -b do -p linux64 -u all -t none<\/pre>\n<p>And then I did a <a href=\"https:\/\/tbpl.mozilla.org\/?tree=Try&amp;rev=ab8a246852c1\">try run<\/a> that did builds (but no tests) on all platforms except Linux64:<\/p>\n<pre>try: -b do -p linux,macosx64,win32,android,android-armv6,android-noion,ics_armv7a_gecko,panda,otoro,unagi -u none -t none<\/pre>\n<p>Interesting.\u00a0 I wonder if this is a combination that other people have considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a patch that&#8217;s ready to land.\u00a0 I wanted to ensure that it compiles on all platforms.\u00a0 I also wanted to ensure that it passes all tests, but I felt that running all the tests on one of the tier 1 platforms was enough. There&#8217;s no way to specify this combination in a single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15271],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}