Thanks for spearheading this, Nick! On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Chris Mills <cmi...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> Nice work Nick - some really good content here. > > I’ve spent a good chunk of today reading through and giving it a copy edit. > > Chris Mills > Senior tech writer || Mozilla > developer.mozilla.org || MDN > cmi...@mozilla.com || @chrisdavidmills > > > > > On 10 Sep 2015, at 02:14, Nicholas Nethercote <n.netherc...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > > > The 2015 Platform Engineering roadmap [1] > > (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Roadmap) mentioned "Candle", an > initiative > > that aims to reduce the power consumption of Firefox (desktop and > Android) and > > Firefox OS, that sits alongside other well-known initiatives like > CrashKill, > > CritSmash, and MemShrink. This is finally getting off the ground in a > > significant way. > > > > Details are on the wiki page [2]. Some highlights are as follows. > > > > - There is a new mailing list, dev-power [3]. We will initially try > using the > > mailing list for all discussion and bug triage in preference to > face-to-face > > meetings. This avoids disadvantaging anyone due to their timezone and > also > > makes it easy to follow along in a low-commitment fashion. > > > > - There is a new IRC channel, #power. > > > > - There are several new MDN documentation pages relating to power > profiling > > [4]. > > > > We hope Project Candle will extend and co-ordinate the existing > patchwork of > > efforts relating to power consumption. Although it is originating in > Platform > > Engineering, like all other cross-cutting quality initiatives it will > need > > involvement from people all over Mozilla engineering to be successful. > If you > > are at all interested in power consumption, I encourage you to do one or > more > > of the following things. > > > > - Easy (5 minutes or less): > > - Read the wiki page [2]. > > - Join the mailing list [3]. > > > > - Medium (1 hour or less): > > - Read the tools documentation on MDN [4]. (Feedback is welcome!) > > - Read through the bug lists (linked from the wiki > > page; currently the "Unprioritized" list is the only non-empty one). > > > > - Harder: > > - Work on a bug from one of the bug lists. > > - Think about Q4 goals that might involve power consumption. > > > > I will start the first bug triage thread on the mailing list early next > week. > > > > Please contact me if you have any questions or other feedback. Thank you. > > > > Nick > > > > [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Roadmap > > [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Project_Candle > > [3] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-power > > [4] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Performance, > > under "Power profiling" > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-fxos mailing list > > dev-f...@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
