On closing old bugs

While looking through bugzilla I often stumble in my searches on old bugs - sometimes very old - which after a quick look I realize have either already been fixed or won't be (because they pertain to some old, unsupported platform for example). I'm always tempted to close the former as duplica

Re: [b2g] PSA: Shutting down my mozilla git mirror in three weeks

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 06:02:42AM +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > Note, for git lovers, the git remote hg helper seems to work quite well. > see http://felipec.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/git-remote-hg-bzr-2/ > > As an occasional gecko developer I'm giving it a try right now and see > how it goes :)

Re: [b2g] PSA: Shutting down my mozilla git mirror in three weeks

Note, for git lovers, the git remote hg helper seems to work quite well. see http://felipec.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/git-remote-hg-bzr-2/ As an occasional gecko developer I'm giving it a try right now and see how it goes :) Le 26/11/2013 20:13, Juan Gómez a écrit : > Well, I have a fork of mozill

Re: HWA and OMTC on Linux

Congrats Nick, after all is said and done, this is a very nice milestone to cross! 2013/11/26 Nicholas Cameron > This has finally happened. If it sticks, then after this commit ( > https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Mozilla-Inbound&rev=aa0066b3865c) there > will be no more main thread OpenGL compos

Re: HWA and OMTC on Linux

This has finally happened. If it sticks, then after this commit (https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Mozilla-Inbound&rev=aa0066b3865c) there will be no more main thread OpenGL compositing on any platform. See my blog post (http://featherweightmusings.blogspot.co.nz/2013/11/no-more-main-thread-opengl-

Re: Keywords for flagging unreduced regression windows

On 11/26/2013 08:10 PM, Josh Matthews wrote: * regressionwindow-wanted, testcase-wanted: regression from earlier versions is present, and some help crafting a testcase/clear steps to consistently reproduce is desired I think we should keep "testcase" and "steps to reproduce" as separate notions

[completed] Re: Disabling today the 10.7 test infrastructure across the board

This has been completed. All 10.7 jobs have been disabled. Those 10.7 machines will be re-purposed as 10.6 machines. We should have them all re-imaged and operational by next week. If you find any issues please use https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=942299 cheers, Armen On 11/26/2013,

Keywords for flagging unreduced regression windows

In an attempt to get more people involved with finding regression ranges, I'm proposing some standard keywords for relevant bugs: * regressionwindow-wanted: regression from earlier versions is present, but there are not clear, reproducible steps to follow (likely quite complex/intermittent) *

Re: PSA: Shutting down my mozilla git mirror in three weeks

On 11/26/2013, 2:13 PM, Juan Gómez wrote: Well, I have a fork of mozilla/mozilla-central and it is not disabled. I can push commits, browse it via web or clone it. Anyway, What do you suggest? moving to git.mozilla.org instead of github/gecko-dev? That problem was resol

Re: PSA: Shutting down my mozilla git mirror in three weeks

Well, I have a fork of mozilla/mozilla-central and it is not disabled. I can push commits, browse it via web or clone it. Anyway, What do you suggest? moving to git.mozilla.org instead of github/gecko-dev? On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:05 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > It looks like GitHub decided to

Re: PSA: Shutting down my mozilla git mirror in three weeks

FWIW the repository is back up now! On 11/25/2013, 4:46 PM, Aki Sasaki wrote: Github has closed access to https://github.com/mozilla/mozilla-central : This repository has been disabled. Access to this repository has been disabled by GitHub staff. Contact support to restore access

Re: Support for non-UTF-8 platform charset

On 11/25/2013 01:46 PM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > Questions: > > * On Windows, do we really need to pay homage to the pre-NT legacy > when doing Save As? How about we just use UTF-8 for "HTML Page, > complete" reserialization like on Mac? Do you mean Save As Text? Do we really use the platform char

Re: PSA: Shutting down my mozilla git mirror in three weeks

Github has closed access to https://github.com/mozilla/mozilla-central : This repository has been disabled. Access to this repository has been disabled by GitHub staff. Contact support to restore access to this repository. We're currently trying to reach github support to reverse this

Re: [b2g] PSA: Shutting down my mozilla git mirror in three weeks

On 11/25/13 2:59 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Aki Sasaki wrote: >> Github has closed access to https://github.com/mozilla/mozilla-central : >> >> This repository has been disabled. >> Access to this repository has been disabled by GitHub staff. >> C

Re: MozillaBuild 1.9.0 test build up

On 11/26/2013 11:04 AM, Ryan VanderMeulen wrote: I just uploaded a test build of MozillaBuild 1.9.0. Please try it out and provide feedback, especially with mozmake. http://people.mozilla.org/~rvandermeulen/MozillaBuildSetup1.9.0pre.exe Notable changes in this build: * Better support for newer

MozillaBuild 1.9.0 test build up

I just uploaded a test build of MozillaBuild 1.9.0. Please try it out and provide feedback, especially with mozmake. http://people.mozilla.org/~rvandermeulen/MozillaBuildSetup1.9.0pre.exe Notable changes in this build: * Better support for newer MSVC and Windows SDK versions * Updated Mercurial

Disabling today the 10.7 test infrastructure across the board

This is part 1 of the thread "Proposed changes to RelEng's OSX build and test infrastructure". I wanted to make it very clear so no one is surprised when it happens. cheers, Armen ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://li

Re: Support for non-UTF-8 platform charset

On 11/26/2013 6:37 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Yuri Dario wrote: >> the OS/2 port is alive, we already have a beta release for 17.x and a >> more current version will follow. > Does this work all happen in forked repositories, such as > https://github.com/bitwisewor

Re: Reacting more strongly to low-memory situations in Firefox 25

On 11/25/13 8:15 PM, Bas Schouten wrote: I'm a little confused, when I force OOM my firefox build on 64-bit windows it -definitely- goes down before it reaches more than 3GB of working set. Am I missing something here? I think so. I did not mention working set at all. I am merely calculating w

Re: Support for non-UTF-8 platform charset

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Simon Montagu wrote: (Replying to @smontagu.org, instead of netscape.com just in case.) > Do you mean Save As Text? Do we really use the platform charset when > saving as HTML Page, complete? For Save As Text I would have thought > that the time was ripe by now t

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendations: Performance Timeline, User Timing, JSON-LD

I don't know how well (or if at all) the current push for performance devtools is coordinated with these proposals, but it would certainly be worth looking into that. CCing Axel Kratel. On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:31 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 11/25/13 7:07 PM, L. David Baron wrote: > >>

Re: Support for non-UTF-8 platform charset

Henri Sivonen wrote: On Windows, do we really need to pay homage to the pre-NT legacy when doing Save As? How about we just use UTF-8 for "HTML Page, complete" reserialization like on Mac? You'll need a BOM, of course. (MXR turns up so little that it makes me wonder non-UTF-8 support migh

Re: Is there any reason not to shut down bonsai?

On 21/11/13 21:12, Laura Thomson wrote: > bonsai is old code, and written in very old-fashioned perl. As such, > security bugs are frequently filed against it, and it's very hard to > find people who are willing and able to fix them. If you are willing > and able, let me know: I can hook you up wit

Re: Analyze C++/compiler usage and code stats easily

Gregory Szorc wrote: The best way to fetch it is to pull the bookmark tracking it: $ hg pull -B gps/build/measure-compiler http://hg.gregoryszorc.com/gecko-collab Or, look for that bookmark at http://hg.gregoryszorc.com/gecko-collab/bookmarks and track down the changeset. Note that for

Re: Unified builds

Ehsan Akhgari wrote: It's hard to say exactly what's going on here without knowing more about how this build is produced. These are intermittent failures on TBPL, mostly starred by philor. It would be really great if you could file a bug about this with more details on how to reproduce this

Re: Reacting more strongly to low-memory situations in Firefox 25

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: > In crashkill we have been tracking crashes that occur in low-memory > situations for a while. However, we are seeing a troubling uptick of issues > in Firefox 23 and then 25. I believe that some people may not be able to use > Firefox bec