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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19/03/2016 12:47 AM, Gervase Markham
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<pre wrap="">Dear Thunderbird community,
As you know, there is a goal to give Thunderbird its own independent
build and release infrastructure. The Thunderbird Council will, in due
course, be making a decision about how best to move forward with this. I
suspect they will probably wait until the financial home is chosen, and
perhaps until after the architect is hired, to do that.
However, in order to improve clarity, this post outlines what Mozilla is
willing to pay for and do for Thunderbird in this area. Other people may
of course have other proposals to bring forward, to which this one can
be compared.
In producing this proposal, we (that is me, Gerv, and Doug Turner) have
evaluated two possible paths forward:
A) create an instance of the current Buildbot-based system specifically
for Thunderbird; or
B) port Thunderbird to a new system using Taskcluster and Amazon Machine
Images (AMIs).</pre>
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<i>I think this is one of those times when the option to take is
fairly clear. <br>
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We have an existing build infrastructure that is on life support.
Someone has come along with the money and the people to rebuild it
into something modern and more stable. Mozilla have staked their
own future on the technology, so they are certainly not hanging us
out to dry. Regardless of personal preferences, and in the
absence of a competing competitive offer, the decision is obvious.<br>
<br>
Matt<br>
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