Release Engineering special issue now available

>> Wednesday, February 25, 2015

The release engineering special issue of IEEE software was published yesterday. (Download pdf here).  This issue focuses on the current state of release engineering, from both an industry and research perspective. Lots of exciting work happening in this field!

I'm interviewed in the roundtable article on the future of release engineering, along with Chuck Rossi of Facebook and Boris Debic of Google.  Interesting discussions on the current state of release engineering at organizations that scale large number of builds and tests, and release frequently.  As well,  the challenges with mobile releases versus web deployments are discussed. And finally, a discussion of how to find good release engineers, and what the future may hold.

Thanks to the other guest editors on this issue -  Stephany Bellomo, Tamara Marshall-Klein, Bram Adams, Foutse Khomh and Christian Bird - for all their hard work that make this happen!


As an aside, when I opened the issue, the image on the front cover made me laugh.  It's reminiscent of the cover on a mid-century science fiction anthology.  I showed Mr. Releng and he said "Robot birds? That is EXACTLY how I pictured working in releng."  Maybe it's meant to represent that we let software fly free.  In any case, I must go back to tending the flock of robotic avian overlords.

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Mozilla pushes - January 2015

>> Friday, February 13, 2015

Here's January 2015's monthly analysis of the pushes to our Mozilla development trees. You can load the data as an HTML page or as a json file.

Trends
We're back to regular volume after the holidays. Also, it's really cold outside in some parts of the of the Mozilla world.  Maybe committing code > going outside.


Highlights
10798 pushes
348 pushes/day (average)
Highest number of pushes/day: 562 pushes on Jan 28, 2015
18.65 pushes/hour (highest)

General Remarks
Try had around around 42% of all the pushes
The three integration repositories (fx-team, mozilla-inbound and b2g-inbound) account around 24% of all of the pushes

Records
August 2014 was the month with most pushes (13,090  pushes)
August 2014 has the highest pushes/day average with 422 pushes/day
July 2014 has the highest average of "pushes-per-hour" with 23.51 pushes/hour
October 8, 2014 had the highest number of pushes in one day with 715 pushes 




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