Re: Disabling non-Skia builds

2016-12-14 Thread George Wright
I'm 100% in support of this. One thing I'd like to know though is how we're going to deal with upstreaming patches to Skia on behalf of third parties? In my experience, it's rarely been a case of simply submitting a patch and having it accepted; there's normally a decent amount of engineering

Intent to deprecate: Building mozilla-central without Skia enabled

2016-08-22 Thread George Wright
I'm looking to remove the option to build mozilla-central without Skia. Currently we default to Skia being disabled, and enable it using --enable-skia. This is problematic because all of our officially supported build configurations enable Skia, and as such the Skia-is-disabled build has been

Re: Ignoring viewpoints of non-Mozilla-employees can't be the way to go for a OSS project!

2016-05-09 Thread George Wright
On 05/09/2016 04:59 PM, Tobias B. Besemer wrote: But I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't take anymore long till Mozilla is on the ground... It seems a bit odd that you're using the "you will lose marketshare" argument in favour of your demands, but in the content process bug your demands

Re: Is there an e10s plan for multiple content processes?

2015-05-05 Thread George Wright
On 05/05/15 16:40, Mike Hommey wrote: Last time I tried e10s, which was a while ago, tab switching did feel weird with e10s *because* of that lack of the browser lock-up, because now, the tab strip shows you've switched tabs, but the content is still from before switching, until the spinner

Re: The e10s throbber

2015-04-07 Thread George Wright
On 2015-04-07 8:48 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: Is the duration of this delay measured in telemetry anywhere, and do we have criteria for how much delay is acceptable in this case? If e10s were off, do we expect that this same delay would occur but would just show up as a jank switching tabs?

Re: Moz2D Repository Creation

2013-03-27 Thread George Wright
On 03/27/2013 07:37 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: I predict that eventually we'll want to switch mozilla-central to git. (I'm not in favour of it, but hg is not the DVCS of the future.) So, git users not liking git's subrepositories gives me pause and I think it's imperative to consider the