After the recent work done to bring up the new Firefox3.1 branch I did a count of active Talos boxes. As far as I can figure it breaks down like this:
- 7 testing 1.8
- 25 testing 1.9
- 23 testing 1.9.1
- 23 testing 1.9.2
- 9 testing Tracemonkey
- 3 testing try server builds
That would give a grand total of 90. Since we are starting down the road of decommissioning the 7 machines assigned to 1.8 this is probably as high as we are going to get for quite some time - though I envision a future with a lot more infrastructure dedicated to the whole try system.
Recall that the first set of Talos mac mini WinXP boxes were pushed to the production waterfall to test Firefox 3 sometime during the week ending on December 7th, 2007 - or so says my status report for that week. That would be from 3 machines to 90 in under a year. Seems like a good time to reflect upon the breadth and depth that the whole Talos infrastructure now covers and also hope that we won’t be having to make any more orders for batches of 50 minis. I don’t think that IT will ever talk to me again if I make them rack more minis.