Re: Deprecation notice - change to Treeherder's jobdetail API

2020-04-13 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Hi all, On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 10:29 AM Sarah Clements wrote: > Nick, > > I want to clarify something I said in my previous email that might be > confusing: > > We currently process data from the jobInfo and extra.artifacts > properties of jobs we ingest (this goes into the JobDetails table).

Re: Deprecation notice - change to Treeherder's jobdetail API

2020-04-09 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Hello Sarah, others, On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 6:51 PM Sarah Clements wrote: > Hello, > > As part of maintenance work and performance improvements to Treeherder, > we're making changes to some of the data that's stored in our database. On > *April > 30th*, we will no longer be retrieving uploaded

Re: To what extent is sccache's distributed compilation usable?

2020-03-13 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 5:30 PM Marcos Caceres wrote: > On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 11:59:45 PM UTC+11, Jeff Muizelaar wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 9:45 PM Marcos Caceres > wrote: > > sccache supports doing cross compilation so you don't actually need to > > buy a fast Mac to get

Re: Deprecation of NS_NewNamedThread

2020-03-02 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Kris, others working on this, On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 6:51 AM Kris Wright wrote: > *tl;dr: To create new one-off threads using NS_NewNamedThread, you need to > add them to an allowlist. Lots of cases of async work can be done on the > background thread pool.* > I've been watching this

Re: Intent to remove: Fennec

2019-10-04 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Hi all, On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 12:56 PM James Willcox wrote: > Folks, > > As you may be aware, Fennec has been frozen on 68 ESR with the expectation > that Fenix will become the new Firefox for Android in 2020. For reasons of > hygiene and simplification, I propose that we begin removing

[ann] `mach build` now includes `mach package` for Android

2019-08-23 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Hi folks! tl;dr: you don't need to run `mach package` for Android (GeckoView) any more. Bug 1550146 has landed and stuck. That ticket integrates producing the omnijar required for Android into the build; and produces All The Things for

Re: Must we rebuild all our rust code constantly?

2019-08-23 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 2:11 AM ishikawa wrote: > On 2019/08/23 11:00, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > > In the meanwhile, as discussed on irc, it seems fair to disable > > CARGO_INCREMENTAL when building with sccache. > > So how can we disable this? > Setting environment variable as in the following?

Re: [ann] Slides from Mozilla Android Bootcamp presentation

2019-07-06 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 10:08 AM Nicholas Alexander wrote: > Hello all, > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:19 AM Nicholas Alexander < > nalexan...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> Hello folks, >> >> As part of the June 2019 Whistler All Hands >> <https://wiki.

Re: [ann] Slides from Mozilla Android Bootcamp presentation

2019-06-26 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Hello all, On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:19 AM Nicholas Alexander wrote: > Hello folks, > > As part of the June 2019 Whistler All Hands > <https://wiki.mozilla.org/All_Hands/Whistler2019>, I delivered a > presentation titled "Android Bootcamp" for Gecko/platform

[ann] Slides from Mozilla Android Bootcamp presentation

2019-06-19 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Hello folks, As part of the June 2019 Whistler All Hands , I delivered a presentation titled "Android Bootcamp" for Gecko/platform engineers working on Android. It's a 10,000 foot view of Mozilla's Android ecosystem and how to get started building

Re: Running source code analysis on Try

2019-05-15 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Bastien, others, On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 9:38 AM Bastien Abadie wrote: > TL;DR: We are leveraging the try infrastructure to perform source code > analysis (linters, static analyzers, etc). You can take advantage of this > to trigger other try jobs on Phabricator revisions. > What is the status

Re: Change to preferences via StaticPrefs, tremoval of gfxPrefs

2019-05-15 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 6:03 AM Jean-Yves Avenard wrote: > Dear all. > > /Possibility to dynamically set a StaticPref on any threads (however, > the changes aren't propagated to other processes; doing otherwise is > certainly doable, I'm not convinced of the use case however)./ > Forgive my

Re: To what extent is sccache's distributed compilation usable?

2019-04-01 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 1:03 PM Emilio Cobos Álvarez wrote: > On 01/04/2019 21:40, Bobby Holley wrote: > > My (possibly outdated) understanding is that the sccache distributed > > compilation stuff is restricted to the build machines we control. > Naively, > > I'm not sure there's a secure way to

Re: Intermediate CA Preloading is enabled for desktop Nightly users

2019-03-14 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 2:23 PM J.C. Jones wrote: > Tom, > > Kinto provides the whole list of metadata to clients as soon as it syncs > [1]. The metadata uses the Kinto attachment > mechanism to store the > DER-encoded certificate for separate

Re: Searchfox support for mobile/android just got a little better

2019-02-28 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Kats, others, On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 9:49 AM Kartikaya Gupta wrote: > As of today Searchfox is providing C++/Rust analysis for > Android-specific code. So stuff in widget/android and behind android > ifdefs should be turning up when you search for symbols. Note that > we're using data from an

Re: Cookie policy/permission in live documents - proposal

2019-01-23 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 11:33 AM Andrea Marchesini wrote: > > You pointed out one case of unpredictable behaviour: a website's logic >> cannot preserve assumptions across the entire duration of it's JS >> execution >> context. But if we don't apply the policy instantly, isn't the reverse >>

Re: Cookie policy/permission in live documents - proposal

2019-01-23 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Hi Andrea, others, I am mostly ignorant of these matters, so please correct me when I'm wrong. On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 5:24 AM Andrea Marchesini wrote: > Hi all, > > When the cookie policy or a cookie permission changes, firefox applies the > new behavior to any existing documents immediately.

Re: Proposal to adjust testing to run on PGO builds only and not test on OPT builds

2019-01-04 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 1:47 PM Chris AtLee wrote: > Thank you Joel for writing up this proposal! > > Are you also proposing that we stop the linux64-opt and win64-opt builds as > well, except for leaving them as an available option on try? If we're not > testing them on integration or release

Re: Proposal to adjust testing to run on PGO builds only and not test on OPT builds

2019-01-03 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 8:43 AM Brian Grinstead wrote: > Artifact builds don’t work with PGO, do they? When I do `-p all` on an > artifact try push I get busted PGO builds (for example: > https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try=7f8ead55ca97821c60ef38af4dec01b8bff0fdf3=219655864). > What's

Re: Announcing new test platform "Android 7.0 x86"

2018-11-01 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 2:44 PM Geoffrey Brown wrote: > This week some familiar tier 1 test suites began running on a new test > platform labelled "Android 7.0 x86" on treeherder. Only a few test suites > are running so far; more are planned. > > Like the existing "Android 4.2" and "Android 4.3"

Re: A tool to put Phabricator and Bugzilla count into your browser toolbar

2018-10-17 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Mike, On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 7:09 AM Mike Conley wrote: > Hi folks, > > I wrote a WebExtension to put your total review count (Phabricator + > Bugzilla) into your browser UI. > > So if you've ever wanted your review queue to haunt you while you surf > the web, you can have that now. > > Here

Re: Browser Architecture Newsletter #7 (S02E02)

2018-09-20 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 7:25 AM smaug wrote: > On 09/20/2018 04:21 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 12:18:49PM +0300, smaug wrote: > >> On 09/19/2018 08:34 PM, Nicholas Alexander wrote: > >>> 2. > >>> > >>> Making th

Browser Architecture Newsletter #7 (S02E02)

2018-09-19 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Browser Architecture Newsletter #7 (S02E02) It’s been a long six months since the last Browser Architecture newsletter . Short and sweet and no theme for this newsletter. XUL/XBL Replacement The XUL/XBL replacement project

Re: Intent to remove DHE ciphers from WebRTC DTLS handshake

2018-08-31 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 2:15 PM, Nicholas Alexander wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 3:56 PM, Nils Ohlmeier > wrote: > >> Summary: >> >> We are looking at removing the DHE cipher suites from the DTLS handshake >> in Firefox soon. >> >

Re: Intent to remove DHE ciphers from WebRTC DTLS handshake

2018-08-30 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 3:56 PM, Nils Ohlmeier wrote: > Summary: > > We are looking at removing the DHE cipher suites from the DTLS handshake > in Firefox soon. > > Ciphers: > - TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA > - TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA > are the two suites which we want to remove,

Re: PSA: Re-run old (non-syntax) try pushes with |mach try again|

2018-07-17 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Ahal, On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:55 AM, Andrew Halberstadt wrote: > While |mach try fuzzy| is generally a better experience than try > syntax, there are a few cases where it can be annoying. One > common case was when you selected a bunch of tasks in the > interface and pushed. Then at a later

Re: New Policy: Marking Bugzilla bugs for features riding behind a pref

2018-05-03 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 4:57 PM, Emma Humphries wrote: > Hello, > > We control enabling many features and changes to Firefox using preferences. > > Program and Release management as well as PI need a better view of this. > > We've written a new policy which you can read on our

Re: Intent to require Node 8.9.1/npm 5.5.1 for ESLint

2018-04-23 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 4:20 AM, Mark Banner wrote: > I would like to increase the minimum requirements for node with ESLint to > node v8.9.1, npm v5.5.1 for the following reasons: > >- ESLint 5.x is now in alpha, and raises its minimum node requirement >level to

Re: Intent To Require Manifests For Vendored Code In mozilla-central

2018-04-10 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Hi all, On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 9:25 PM, glob wrote: > mozilla-central contains code vendored from external sources. Currently > there is no standard way to document and update this code. In order to > facilitate automation around auditing, vendoring, and linting we intend to >

Re: The future of "remote XUL"

2018-03-27 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Hi Boris! On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 8:36 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > Background: We currently have various provisions for "remote XUL", wherein > a hostname is whitelisted to: > > 1) Allow parsing XUL coming from that hostname (not normally alllowed for > the web). > > 2) Allow

Browser Architecture Newsletter 6 (S02E01)

2018-03-27 Thread Nicholas Alexander
FADE IN DINGY OFFICE INTERIOR Camera zooms out to reveal BROWSER ARCHITECTURE ENGINEER, typing furiously. It’s S02E01 of Browser Architecture Newsletters! Desktop Technology Stack The Browser Architecture group is working hard to tackle some large problems with the technology stack used to

Re: FYI: Short Nightly Shield Study involving DNS over HTTPs (DoH)

2018-03-19 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Hi all, On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 3:56 PM, Xidorn Quan wrote: > It's fine to embed this experiment in the product, and blog about it, but > it's definitely not fine to have it enabled by default and send every DNS > request to a third-party. > > I can understand that the intent

Intent to require Node to build Firefox 61 and later

2018-02-28 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Hello dev-platform, For the reasons outlined at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tOA2aeyjT93OoMv5tUMhAPOkf4rF_IJIHCAoJlwmDHI/edit?usp=sharing, we would like to make Node a requirement to build Firefox sometime in the Firefox 61 development cycle. (Firefox 60 will be an ESR release, so this

Re: Faster gecko builds with IceCC on Mac and Linux

2018-01-24 Thread Nicholas Alexander
> Would it be possible that when I do an hg pull of mozilla-central or > mozilla-inbound, I can also choose to download the object files from the > most recent ancestor that had an automation build? (It could be a separate > command, or ./mach pull.) They would go into a local ccache (or

Re: Please stop using keypress event to handle non-printable keys

2018-01-18 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 6:34 PM, Masayuki Nakano wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > Please stop using keypress event for handling non-printable keys in new > code when you write new code and new automated tests. Firefox will stop > dispatching keypress events for non-printable

Re: PSA: searchfox now indexes rust

2018-01-12 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 1:51 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 11:15:13AM -0500, Kartikaya Gupta wrote: > > Just a heads-up, thanks to a bunch of work by Emilio, searchfox.org > > now indexes rust code as well, so you can do things like jump to > > function

Re: new code to help with cross-process windows/workers (and Clients API)

2017-12-08 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Hi Ben, On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Ben Kelly wrote: > Hi all, > > I just want to give you a heads up about some new infrastructure that is > landing in the tree. In particular, we now have: > 1. A central list of windows and workers for the entire browser in the >

Re: No more #ifdef MOZ_CRASHREPORTER directives needed when using crash reporter functions

2017-11-24 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 2:55 AM, Gabriele Svelto wrote: > [cross-posting to firefox-dev] > > Fellow mozillians, > bug 1402519 [1] just landed and it introduces a dummy implementation of > the crash reporter which is built when configuring with > --disable-crash-reporter.

Re: Intent to unship: Linux 32bit Geckodriver executable

2017-11-21 Thread Nicholas Alexander
David, On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 12:54 PM, David Burns <dbu...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Answered inline below. > > On 21 November 2017 at 19:03, Nicholas Alexander <nalexan...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 5:25 AM, David Burns &l

Re: Intent to unship: Linux 32bit Geckodriver executable

2017-11-21 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 5:25 AM, David Burns wrote: > For the next version of geckodriver I am intending that it not ship a Linux > 32 bit version of Geckodriver. Currently it accounts of 0.1% of downloads > and we regularly get somewhat cryptic intermittents which are hard

Re: Stylo is built as default even if Fennec/Android

2017-10-27 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Makoto Kato wrote: > Hi, all. > > You know, stylo (Quantum CSS) is turned on Firefox Desktop only. > Stylo team is working very hard for Android too, then all reftests and > mochitests are passed now even if Fennec/Android. > > So I would

Re: Experimenting with a shared review queue for Core::Build Config

2017-10-13 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 7:47 AM, Andreas Tolfsen wrote: > Also sprach smaug: > > How did the setup actually work? >> > > I think farre gave a satisfactory summary of the review tool above. > > I've asked this from farre too before, and IIRC, the reply was >> that is wasn't working

Re: #pragma once?

2017-10-12 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > On 11-10-17 11:45, Emilio Cobos Álvarez wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm adding a header to the build, and I'm wondering: Can we use pragma > once? > > > > I don't see it anywhere in the build except third-party paths and:

Re: New string types: nsAutoStringN<> and nsAutoCStringN<>

2017-08-22 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Hi Nicholas, On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 11:38 PM, Nicholas Nethercote < n.netherc...@gmail.com> wrote: > I really wish our top-level namespace was "moz", rather than "mozilla". > Can you say why? Is it "just" shorter? Is it more pleasant to s/std/moz/ and vice versa? Nick > > Nick > > On Tue,

Re: Proposal for informing Developers and Sheriffs about new Testsuites

2017-06-14 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 1:58 AM, Carsten Book wrote: > Hi, > > we had the case that a new testsuite was enabled and one test of that > suite resulted in a new perma orange failure. Its a tier-2 testsuite but of > course also tier 2 cause additional work for sheriffs. > > The

Re: Please write good commit messages before asking for code review

2017-03-09 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Andrew McCreight <amccrei...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Nicholas Alexander <nalexan...@mozilla.com > > > wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote: > > &g

Re: Please write good commit messages before asking for code review

2017-03-09 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 3/9/17 4:35 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote: > >> I'm in favor of good commit messages, but I would note that current m-c >> convention really pushes against this, because people seem to feel that >> commit messages should be

Re: All platform uses ICU as default

2017-02-07 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 1:03 AM, Makoto Kato wrote: > I will land bug 1215247 [1] this week since Fennec's team approves it, > so all platform will use ICU and JS Intl API as default. > This is a huge amount of work -- congratulations to all involved! Nick

Re: Status of support for Android on ARMv7 without NEON

2017-01-23 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > Do we support Android on ARMv7 without NEON? > Ralph Giles told me just a few days ago that yes, we support ARMv7 with and without NEON. This is relevant to the Oxidation project. I may have been incorrect; I'm

Re: Intent to implement: Web2Native Bridge

2016-12-01 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 2:40 AM, Anders Rundgren < anders.rundgren@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 10:01:38 PM UTC+1, Nicholas Alexander > wrote: > Hi Nick, > Many thanks for your elaborate comments! > Heh, that message kept growing and probably coul

Re: Intent to implement: Web2Native Bridge

2016-11-29 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Hi Anders, On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Anders Rundgren < anders.rundgren@gmail.com> wrote: > There are virtually tons of developers out there using Android Intents to > start "Apps" from the Web. > Aye, and Firefox does support this custom URI scheme. > However, this mechanism sucks

Re: Removing navigator.buildID?

2016-10-29 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 7:21 AM, Kohei Yoshino wrote: > So the Battery Status API has just been removed, I think now is a good > time to think about navigator.buildID again, which bug [1] has been > inactive for a whole year. > > 4 years ago, Firefox 16 removed a minor

Re: Gecko shutdown (London session)

2016-06-30 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Hi Aaron, others, On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Aaron Klotz wrote: > Did the now-defunct exit(0) project ever come up in this discussion? > > See bugs 662444 and 826143. This was a perf team project back in the > Snappy days where the objective was to write important data

Re: libc++ enabled for Android / C++11 standard library update

2016-05-03 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Nathan Froyd wrote: > As the subject suggests. It is also strongly suggested that you now > use NDK r11b or above for your local Android development; this is what > automation uses and what |mach bootstrap| installs. > > This change leaves Mac

Re: Triage Plan for Firefox Components

2016-04-05 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Emma, On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Emma Humphries wrote: > It's been a week since I asked for your comments on the plan for triage, > thank you. > > I'm going reply to some general comments on the plan, and outline next > steps. > I just want to say that I have been

Re: #include sorting: case-sensitive or -insensitive?

2016-03-28 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 1:28 PM, David Keeler wrote: > (Everyone, start your bikesheds.) > > The style guidelines at > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Coding_Style > indicate that #includes are to be sorted. It does not say whether or not >

Re: MOZ_LOG_FILE and MOZ_LOG_MODULES are now the environment variables for logging

2016-03-21 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Honza Bambas wrote: > tl;dr: Start migrating to use of MOZ_LOG_* instead of NSPR_LOG_*. Don't > worry about backward compatibility tho, when MOZ_LOG_* is not set, we > fallback to NSPR_LOG_* values. > Hi Honza, Thanks for making the world

Re: Intent to implement: DOM Push API in Firefox for Android

2016-03-09 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Hi folks, On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Nicholas Alexander <nalexan...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Summary: "The Push API gives web applications the ability to receive > messages pushed to them from a server, whether or not the web app is in the > foreground, or even current

Intent to implement: DOM Push API in Firefox for Android

2016-03-02 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Summary: "The Push API gives web applications the ability to receive messages pushed to them from a server, whether or not the web app is in the foreground, or even currently loaded, on a user agent. This lets developers deliver asynchronous notifications and updates to users that opt in,

Re: Testing Wanted: APZ Scrollbar dragging

2016-02-17 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Benoit, (possibly kats), On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Benoit Girard wrote: > Currently APZ does not cause scrollbar initiated scrolling to be async. > I've been working in fixing this and I'd like some help testing it out > before enabling it on Nightly. If you're

Re: Gecko/Firefox stats and diagrams wanted

2016-02-09 Thread Nicholas Alexander
+Kyle, +Nathan On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Chris Mills wrote: > Hi all, > > I’m writing a presentation about browsers, standards implementation, and > cross-browser coding to give at some universities. As a part of it, I > wanted to present some stats about Firefox/Gecko

Re: Submit to MozReview using Git

2016-02-05 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > It is now possible to submit reviews to MozReview using Git. Instructions > are at > > https://mozilla-version-control-tools.readthedocs.org/en/latest/mozreview/install-git.html > > Bugs should be filed against Developer

Re: Using the Taskcluster index to find builds

2015-11-30 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Chris AtLee wrote: > The RelEng, Cloud Services and Taskcluster teams have been doing a lot of > work behind the scenes over the past few months to migrate the backend > storage for builds from the old "FTP" host to S3. While we've tried to

Re: Merging comm-central into mozilla-central

2015-10-23 Thread Nicholas Alexander
+1 from me. I'd just like to speak to one small part below. On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 12:57 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: > Hi, > > This has been discussed in the past, to no avail. I would like to reopen > the discussion. > - It sets a bad precedent, other Gecko-based projects

Re: Decommissioning "dumbmake"

2015-10-18 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Nicholas Alexander < > nalexan...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote:

Re: Decommissioning "dumbmake"

2015-10-18 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: > Hi, > > I started a thread with the same subject almost two years ago. The > motivation hasn't changed, but the context surely has, so it's probably > time to reconsider. > > As a reminder, "dumbmake" is the feature that

Re: Intent to unship: jar: URIs from content

2015-10-15 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > We currently support URLs such as http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/modules/libjar/test/mochitest/bug403331.zip?raw=1=application/java-archive!/test.html>. > This is a Firefox specific feature that no

Re: [feature] open certain domains into a private window

2015-06-24 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Aaron Klotz akl...@mozilla.com wrote: I would like to see this as an addition to tab queues: having an option in the toast to choose to open the link in a private tab. This would be valuable, I think. We have a (new) flag for opening all links in PB mode;

Re: How to getting custom protocol custom-protocol://some-uri-path to act like http to support page browser?

2015-06-24 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:53 AM, Yonggang Luo luoyongg...@gmail.com wrote: 在 2015年6月24日星期三 UTC+8下午7:38:01,Philipp Kewisch写道: On 6/24/15 1:10 PM, Yonggang Luo wrote: For example. custom-protocol://some-uri-path/test.html I want the test.html works like

Re: Disabling the startup cache

2015-06-22 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 10:01 PM, Gregory Szorc gsz...@mozilla.com wrote: On Jun 20, 2015, at 20:55, Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 02:36:26PM -0600, Aaron Klotz wrote: On 6/20/2015 10:20 AM, Philip Chee wrote: Anyone want to try the same with Firefox

Re: How to getting html files under URI resource://URI-path have the same permission that chrome://URI-path does?

2015-06-07 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Hi Yonggang, On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 8:47 AM, 罗勇刚(Yonggang Luo) luoyongg...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to place html files under resource directory without need to maintain chrome for resource files.. I did something like this to make regular HTML files have chrome:// privileges in the

Re: gecko.readthedocs.org

2015-05-25 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Hi Philip, On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:08 PM, Philip Chee philip.c...@gmail.com wrote: https://gecko.readthedocs.org/en/latest/mobile/android/base/fennec/adjust.html I am the author of this particular page. I had a very confusing time the first time I tried to use readthedocs. Clicking

Re: Web Speech API Installation Build Flags

2015-05-06 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 10:36 PM, kda...@mozilla.com wrote: We would like some feedback on build flags for the Web Speech API installation. More specifically, we are planning to land an initial version of the Web Speech API[1] into Geko. However, due to a number of factors, model size being

Re: You can now log into BMO with your GitHub account

2015-04-27 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Mark Côté mc...@mozilla.com wrote: This morning we enabled a feature on bugzilla.mozilla.org that allows users to log in with their GitHub credentials, similar to our existing Persona support. If you have several email addresses associated with your GitHub

Re: How does stl_wrappers works in mozilla building system?

2015-04-17 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Yonggang Luo luoyongg...@gmail.com wrote: I can not found the cause that how mozilla building with stl_wrappers. What do you want to know? https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?tree=mozilla-centralq=stl_wrapperredirect=true clearly shows a Python

Re: Can we make try builds default to a different profile than Nightly/Aurora/Beta/Release builds?

2015-04-08 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 12:08:27PM -0700, Seth Fowler wrote: I sometimes ask users to test a try build to verify that the build fixes their problem. This is an important tool, especially when the problem is hard to

Re: Can we make try builds default to a different profile than Nightly/Aurora/Beta/Release builds?

2015-04-08 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Hi Seth, others, On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Seth Fowler s...@mozilla.com wrote: I sometimes ask users to test a try build to verify that the build fixes their problem. This is an important tool, especially when the problem is hard to reproduce or when the definition of “fix” is a bit