Re: C++ standards proposals of potential interest, and upcoming committee meeting

2014-06-11 Thread Brian Smith
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Botond Ballo bba...@mozilla.com wrote: Why put this into core C++? Why not leave it to libraries? The standard library is a library :) One of the biggest criticisms C++ faces is that its standard library is very narrow in scope compared to other languages

Testing infrastructure change: ManifestDestiny - manifestparser

2014-06-11 Thread William Lachance
Just wanted to make a quick announcement that ManifestDestiny, the python package we use internally here at Mozilla for declaratively managing lists of tests in Mochitest and other places, has been renamed to manifestparser. We kept the versioning the same (0.6), so the only thing you should

Re: C++ standards proposals of potential interest, and upcoming committee meeting

2014-06-11 Thread Botond Ballo
From: Brian Smith br...@briansmith.org C++ desperately needs improvements for reducing the occurrence of use-after-free errors. Rust features for this like borrowed references should be imported into the language. A real-life (but reduced/modified) example from mozilla::pkix: Result

Intent to implement BackgroundSync API for FirefoxOS

2014-06-11 Thread Jed Parsons
Summary: From the explainer document [1], the proposed API extends Service Workers with a new onsync event. This is coupled with a new document-side API for registering (and unregistering) interest in onsync. Together, these APIs form the basis of a powerful new capability for rich web apps. This

Re: C++ standards proposals of potential interest, and upcoming committee meeting

2014-06-11 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2014-06-11, 1:42 PM, Botond Ballo wrote: I'd very much like to see this as well! The C++11 attribute syntax might be a good way to accomplish this without inventing new syntax. For example, the standard could define an exhaustive attribute on a switch statement for an enumeration: enum

Trigger arbitrary jobs on your Try push (or other pushes)

2014-06-11 Thread Armen Zambrano G.
Hello, A while ago, zeller, catlee and hwine worked on getting a new BuildAPI available [1]. This allows you to trigger an arbitrary job on the releng/tbpl system post a push. I've put together a script that helps hitting that API [2][3]. The API allows you to use a hand zipped tests.zip which

Re: bugzilla can now show bugs that have been updated since you last visited them

2014-06-11 Thread Fitzgerald, Nick
On 6/3/14, 11:34 PM, Byron Jones wrote: thanks to dylan's work on bug 489028, bugzilla now tracks when you view a bug, allowing you to search for bugs which have been updated since you last visited them. see my blog post for more details: http://wp.me/p1JUqW-9M You might check out

Re: Intent to implement BackgroundSync API for FirefoxOS

2014-06-11 Thread Kyle Huey
Who is the point of contact on the DOM/WebAPI team for the spec side here? - Kyle On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Jed Parsons j...@jedparsons.com wrote: Summary: From the explainer document [1], the proposed API extends Service Workers with a new onsync event. This is coupled with a new