Re: Intent to remove: sensor APIs

[Michael Hoye]

On Aug 2, 2017 15:54, "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <
enrico.weig...@gr13.net> wrote:



Making that information visible to websites (even worse: movement
tracking via g-sensor, etc), definitively looks like security nightmare
which even the Stasi never dared dreaming of.


You need to dial this rhetoric back about 100%. It is not acceptable to
bring even an implied accusation like that to a technical discussion, or
indeed any conversation at all, at Mozilla.

We're always happy to listen to honest criticism and walk back our
mistakes, but we are going have those discussions without demeaning the
work or comparing the people doing that work to volkscryptopolitzei
collaborators.

I encourage you to read our community participation guidelines carefully,
and to take them to heart before continuing.

Thank you.

-mhoye
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Re: windows build anti-virus exclusion list?

[Michael Hoye]

Depending on your AV, if you don't exempt mozilla-central some of our tests
will get quarantined and you won't be able to build at all.

- mhoye


On Mar 16, 2017 20:34, "Ben Kelly"  wrote:

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 11:26 PM, Ben Kelly  wrote:

>   - mozilla-build install dir
>   - visual studio install dir
>   - /users/bkelly/appdada/local/temp
>   - /users/bkelly (because temp dir was not enough)
>

FWIW, adding all these extra exclusions dropped my build time from ~22
minutes to ~14 minutes.

I'm hoping I can narrow my home directory exclusion down to things like
.bash_profile, .cargo, etc.
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Re: Google Summer of Code 2017

[Michael Hoye]

The proposed project list is here:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Community:SummerOfCode17

... But bear in mind that while Mozilla has applied to participate in GSoC,
Google's GSoC team will not announce whether or not Mozilla will be
accepted for a few weeks yet.

- mhoye

On Feb 11, 2017 12:35,  wrote:

> Hello everyone, I am interested in contributing to Mozilla this year as
> part of GSoC, is the ideas list not published yet?
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Furthering The Cause Of Science

[Michael Hoye]

Hi, everyone - 

In a little while, the Mozilla Science Lab will be running an experiment, and I 
want to know if you'd like to help. 

(Some of you are thinking, you had me at Mozilla Science Lab. I know; that's 
how they got me, too. Keep reading!) 

The gist of it is: This is a pilot program, an experiment where we pair up 
Mozilla's programmers with Scientists Who Do Actual Science, who rely on code 
they've written themselves to do their research. We'd like to see if the sort 
of code review we do here routinely, which is pretty much unheard-of in the 
academic-research environment, can make those scientists' software, research 
and lives better.

This isn't expected to be a huge commitment of time - an hour or three, if 
that, sometime the next two months? - and I'd like to be able to pair people up 
with somebody working with a field that interests them, if at all possible. 

The specific questions we're trying to answer are:


1. How much scientific software can be reviewed by non-specialists, and how 
often is domain expertise required?

2. How much effort does this take compared to reviews of other kinds of 
software, and to reviews of papers themselves?

3. How useful do scientists find these reviews?


If you'd like to help, please let me know; if you've got a particular 
interested in a specific field, please specify. 

Again, this is a pilot project - whether or not it grows beyond that depends on 
whether or not this turns out to be a valuable experience for all concerned. 
But at the very least I think it will be interesting.

Let me know, 


- mhoye
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