Re: Report from Build Team Sprint

2016-03-08 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 7:56 AM, David Burns wrote: > > we started working on > replacing the Autoconf configure script. We are planning to replace the old > shell and m4 code with sandboxed python, which will allow us to have > improved performance (especially on Windows),

Report from Build Team Sprint

2016-03-08 Thread David Burns
February 22-26 saw the build team gathered in San Francisco to discuss all the work that is required to speed up developer ergonomics around building Firefox. After discussing all the major items of work we want to work on in the first half of this year (of which there are many), we started