The Gozer is In

Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 was recently released by the Mozilla Release Engineering team. The difference this time, well, all content, including the /start/ page is now hosted on mozillamessaging.com. Makes quite a large difference in our bandwitdh consumption, don't you think ?
The only problems I've been dealing with because of this is simply the amount of logs generated by this increase in traffic. Everything is fine now, but for a little while there, the rapid growth in traffic caught me a little off-guard. I was expecting more traffic, yes, but not quite that much more. It's actually a good thing, really, because except for a little disk space annoyance, the infrastructure behind mozillamessaging.com has handled a 20x increase in traffic without breaking a sweat. Good!

Since Friday, Feb 27th, mozilla.com thunderbird content is redirecting to mozillamessaging.com, see if you can tell when that is on that graph?



I am still crunching the numbers from Thunderbird 3 Beta 2's launch, but this one was easy and I just had to share.



There.

I was just recently pointed at How Markus Made the World Better Today by davida in #maildev today, and I just couldn't help myself.

Thankfully, it's a pure-javascript webapp, with no dependency on anything but itself. So, I just grabbed the html/js/css files and I had something up in no time. Of course, it didn't work at all, but that was a small detail.

A few fixups later, I had it working and taught it about the 2 Thunderbird trees, and Sunbird, while I was at it.

Originally, it used a PHP script to proxy/massage stuff back to tinderbox.mozilla.org and hg.mozilla.org, but since my PHP-foo is weak, and I didn't have the source code to actual PHP, I did without. A few httpd.conf changes later, and it was all working.

It's a really nice alternate way to look at the status of a tree. Have a look for yourself!

The original one is here: http://tests.themasta.com/tinderboxpushlog/
The Thunderbird one is here: http://build.mozillamessaging.com/tinderboxpushlog/

I've cloned Markus Stange's original mercurial repository. You can find my clone at hg.mozilla.org too.

Note: Yes, the whole code was in Mercurial to begin with, I just didn't even look for it until after I had it all working, dhu!

Thanks to Gary for having made me notice this was blog worthy.

We've recently released Thunderbird 3 Beta 1, and afterwards, I had a look at our traffic graphs for the Mozilla Messaging website during that period.

See for yourself, can you see when we released Beta 1?