intro

1. connecting dots backwards
2. what does RelEng do?
3. "glass"
4. BB vs TC
   

1. historical context
2. check-in / gecko
   
3. integration branches
4. central
5. release branches
6. project branches
7. why?
   

1. terminology
   
2. "on push" vs "nightly"
3. "promotion"
   
4. populations numbers

• nightly: 60K
• beta: 1M
• release: 100M
  

• en-US
• locales
• per platform
  

• consumes artifacts from BUILD
  
• GPG-signing
• produces signed artifacts
  

• consumes the signed artifacts
• performed by "beetmover" jobs
  
• transfers them to a safe public location
• S3
  
• "produces" uploaded artifacts
  

• information keeper
• our gateway to outside world
• updates terminology
• full update
• partial update
  

• 2 releng squirrels per cycle
• every 6 weeks
• shepparding nightlies, releases
• mergeduty
  
• graph supervision (four pillars: build/sign/upload/update)
  

• where we need help
• frequest issues vary
• easy reruns
• debugging automation issues