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Resources for learning Python 17 Jun 2013 | 05:39 pm
When I started working at Mozilla, I didn't know Python very well. All of the code that drives our continuous integration is written in it so I've had a spent a lot of time becoming more proficient. ...
Lessons learned organizing a technical event 17 Jun 2013 | 05:31 pm
I was on the organizing committee for Releng 2013. This was the first time I've been involved in organizing a technical event. I thought my experiences might be useful to others in the same situatio...
Releng 2013 Recap 10 Jun 2013 | 10:49 pm
On May 20, we held the Releng 2013 workshop in San Francisco. By all accounts it was a success! I was unsure what to expect given that this was a first time for this workshop. It seemed to be a to...
Releng 2013 keynotes: John O'Duinn (Mozilla) and Roman Scheiter (LinkedIn) 10 May 2013 | 09:28 pm
There are two exciting keynotes planned for Releng 2013 John O'Duinn, Director of Release Engineering at Mozilla will kick off the workshop with his keynote Release Engineering as a Force Multiplier....
Thoughts on being a second generation geek 27 Mar 2013 | 01:58 am
When I was in Toronto for our last work week, I mentioned to one of my colleagues that I was a second generation geek. He replied something to the effect of "There are families that have been fishin...
Who's speaking at Releng 2013? 15 Mar 2013 | 08:21 pm
Release engineering helps bring many of the products we use every day to market. From entertainment, such as Netflix http://www.flickr.com/photos/myetvmedia/8478881935/sizes/o/in/set-721576327833391...
Disabling Bluetooth Assistant and app relaunch in 10.7 via Puppet 25 Feb 2013 | 07:54 pm
Intermittent test failures are very annoying. The create noise that cause people to question the test results - is it real data or just noise? Image ©misspixels, http://www.flickr.com/photos/misspixe...
Reminder: Releng 2013 submission deadline is February 7 5 Feb 2013 | 07:43 pm
Just a friendly reminder that Feb 7 is the deadline to submit talk abstracts and papers to the Releng 2013 workshop. It will be held on May 20 in San Francisco, in conjunction with the ICSE conferenc...
Android Panda tests in production 30 Jan 2013 | 01:26 am
Two weeks ago the Mozilla release engineering team had a work week in Toronto. Toronto in January? Balmy, according to one of our of colleagues from California. Hal wears sandals in the snow. Phot...
Releng 2013 Call for Papers 20 Dec 2012 | 02:13 am
A solid build, test, packaging and deployment story is crucial to the success of a software project. As John O'Duinn says, "release engineers have a multiplier effect". In other words, a release en...
