Re: Intent to remove: Fennec

2019-09-24 Thread Jared Hirsch
Hey Mark, Since you've traveled this far down the rabbit hole already, seems like I should just _casually mention_ that contributions are welcome ^_^ You can learn about Mozilla's next-gen Android browsers and browser components here, if you're interested: https://mozac.org/contributing/

Re: Creating a new mach command for adding tests

2019-04-01 Thread Jared Hirsch
This sounds great! I land features in the tree periodically, but infrequently enough to forget lots of little details. It would really save time (mine and the time of people I ping on IRC for help...) if our tooling simplified the process of creating new tests. I don't have any historical context

Re: How do I file a bug?

2018-10-08 Thread Jared Hirsch
Hey all, A big part of attracting and retaining great contributors is the tone we set when we talk to one another. If you see a problem and want to make things better, then you should come up with a solution, and also do your best to communicate it effectively to the relevant people. (Bonus

Re: All the processes

2017-03-06 Thread Jared Hirsch
It would be great to see this info on MDN or the public wiki :+1: On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 6:00 AM, wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: dev-platform [mailto:dev-platform- > > bounces+jmathies=mozilla@lists.mozilla.org] On Behalf Of Nicholas > > Nethercote

Re: Telemetry experiments need to be easier (on Nightly)

2016-04-20 Thread Jared Hirsch
Hi all, I wrote a telemetry experiment last year[1], and I also found the process challenging to navigate. I found that many important details were undocumented, but were mentioned in review comments, so I added what I could to the telemetry experiment wiki page and to MDN. My experiment

Re: Intent to implement: Disabling auto-play videos on mobile networks/devices?

2014-08-22 Thread Jared Hirsch
FWIW, Safari on iOS doesn't allow autoplay or preload, and also only initiates play/load on a user-triggered event (so, pages can't use JS to fake a click). The reason given in the docs[1] is that users might be charged for that bandwidth. Cheers, Jared [1]

Re: External dependent tests in gecko and gaia

2014-08-15 Thread Jared Hirsch
Hey Edwin, From my perspective (building service-connected Gaia apps), this proposal makes sense: we should give developers the option of testing against real servers. However, I think the proposal would be improved if it described the tradeoffs of the mock server and real server approaches,