On 2013-05-03 5:15 AM, Axel Hecht wrote:
On 5/3/13 1:36 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote:
On 5/2/2013 4:13 PM, Lawrence Mandel wrote:
----- Original Message -----
Great post, Taras!
Per IRC conversations, we'd like to move subsequent discussion of
actions into a meeting so we can more quickly arrive at a resolution.
Please meet in Gregory Szorc's Vidyo Room at 1400 PDT Tuesday, April
30.
That's 2200 UTC. Apologies to the European and east coast crowds. If
you'll miss it because it's too late, let me know and I'll consider
moving it.
https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=yJWrGKmbSi6S
Did someone post a summary of this meeting? Is there a link to share?
Notes at https://etherpad.mozilla.org/storage-in-gecko
We seemed to converge on a (presumably C++-based) storage service that
has named branches/buckets with specific consistency, flushing, etc
guarantees. Clients would obtain a handle on a "branch," and perform
basic I/O operations, including transactions. Branches could be created
ad-hoc at run-time. So add-ons could obtain their own storage namespace
with the storage guarantees of their choosing. Under the hood storage
would be isolated so failures in one component wouldn't affect everybody.
We didn't have enough time to get into prototyping or figuring out who
would implement it.
Going forward, I'm not sure who should own this initiative on a
technical level. In classical Mozilla fashion the person who brings it
up is responsible. That would be me. However, I haven't written a single
line of C++ for Firefox and I have serious doubts I'd be effective.
Perhaps we should talk about it at the next Platform meeting.
Did you guys talk about build-time configuration stuff we're storing in
prefs?
I'm asking because I just added some prefs that really no user should
temper with. browser.searchorder might be another example. Arguably, we
could use this storage to switch off features, too.
IOW, can we bootstrap the data in storage by build-time data?
We're not going to change how the existing preferences work in this project.
Cheers,
Ehsan
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