Re: TB Tryserver WIN32 Build question: merge failure of the change to M-C portion of the source.

2013-04-12 Thread Jeff Hammel
On 04/11/2013 11:40 AM, Joshua Cranmer  wrote: On 4/11/2013 1:33 PM, ISHIKAWA,chiaki wrote: (2013/04/11 23:43), Joshua Cranmer  wrote: On 4/11/2013 2:43 AM, ishikawa wrote: Has anyone seen the problem of the patches to M-C portion of the COMM-CENTRAL not accepted by Thunderbird TryServer

Re: Proposal for using a multi-headed tree instead of inbound

2013-04-03 Thread Jeff Hammel
On 04/03/2013 04:44 PM, Joshua Cranmer  wrote: On 4/3/2013 5:36 PM, L. David Baron wrote: On Wednesday 2013-04-03 17:31 -0400, Kartikaya Gupta wrote: 1. Take the latest green m-c change, commit your patch(es) on top of it, and push it to try. 2. If your try push is green, flag it for eventual

Re: Automatic tree clobbering is coming

2013-04-01 Thread Jeff Hammel
On 03/29/2013 06:01 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: snip/ I highly recommend against defining MOZ_OBJDIR in terms of relative paths. You're implicitly creating a dependency on cwd. This is handy in a few use cases but it's a giant foot gun. Instead, do something like |mk_add_options

Re: Decoupling the build config via moz.build files (nuking all.js)

2013-03-19 Thread Jeff Hammel
On 03/19/2013 07:33 AM, Joshua Cranmer  wrote: On 3/18/2013 11:27 PM, Jeff Hammel wrote: On 03/15/2013 11:33 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: Our build config has a number of areas where metadata is centrally defined and a module or component's configuration is fragmented in the source tree. Here

Re: Decoupling the build config via moz.build files (nuking all.js)

2013-03-19 Thread Jeff Hammel
On 03/18/2013 09:45 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: On 3/18/2013 9:27 PM, Jeff Hammel wrote: On 03/15/2013 11:33 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: Our build config has a number of areas where metadata is centrally defined and a module or component's configuration is fragmented in the source tree. Here

Re: proposal: replace talos with inline tests

2013-03-04 Thread Jeff Hammel
I'll point out and really this is about all I have to say on this thread that while perf testing (that is, recording results) may bewell, not easy, but not too awful that rigorous analysis of what the data means and if there is a regression is often hard since it is often the case, as

Re: Please upgrade to at least Mercurial 2.5.1

2013-02-25 Thread Jeff Hammel
On 02/21/2013 05:41 AM, Justin Lebar wrote: Can guidance be provided as to where to get such things for commonly-run versions of Linux? It's also easy to install hg using pip or easy_install. You can get either of these tools using your distro's package manager. (easy_install is usually called

Re: obsoleting automation.py in the near future

2013-02-20 Thread Jeff Hammel
On 02/20/2013 01:42 PM, L. David Baron wrote: My main question is: what will continue to work and what will stop working? For example, which of these ways of running mochitests will still work and which won't: TEST_PATH=layout/style/test make mochitest-plain

Re: Emacs and vim modelines

2013-01-04 Thread Jeff Hammel
On 01/04/2013 01:01 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 07:49:22AM +1100, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Nicholas Nethercote n.netherc...@gmail.com wrote: But putting sts in would be reasonable for those that don't have |smarttab| set. So it sounds like

Re: Proposal to remove support for the -t all trychooser syntax

2012-10-01 Thread Jeff Hammel
On 10/01/2012 04:32 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: Over in bug 796087, I'm proposing for us to remove the -t all try server flag. The rationale is that the set of Talos tests vary greatly and most of the people who test performance are only interested in a subset of Talos tests. So I'm suggesting

Re: Changing reftest required resolution

2012-08-28 Thread Jeff Hammel
If the exact width/height could be found for each test then these could be marked in a manifest (theoretically, not speaking to the existing reftest manifest format per se). Then reftest could be modified to take a (e.g.) --resoltuion 400x400 argument and the test runner passing over any test

Re: Moving Away from Makefile's

2012-08-22 Thread Jeff Hammel
On 08/22/2012 12:29 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: Switching to something else also has another advantage: the opportunity for a clean slate. I'm hoping we'll use the opportunity to scrape away 10+ years of cruft. I support the sentiment, though this reasoning always makes me cautious, as it