I don't think it works that way. At least it doesn't for me, these time issues don't work that way. There's a context switch involved, those are expensive and there's the feeling of pulling in 2.5 gigs+ onto your hard drive to do something small, for someone else really, not because you get paid for it. Especially when you're for example on a conference with a poor network connection. As another example, currently pushing to try is a very conscious decision for me. Is this test result worth it if it's going to take me 4 hours to get the results on all platforms? I'll have to look at it again tomorrow, maybe I should look a little more if I've done everything to make sure it works. Because I know that by pushing that try run I'm going to put a lot of burden on our infrastructure to see if a small change compiles on all platforms.
Additionally all -other- operations on a larger repository are a lot slower, things like top-level diffs, updates, etc. They take seconds or less on small repository, every step of your workflow is more efficient in a more isolated environment. Bisecting is only a small example of this, bisecting inside a small repository with a fast build/test is a process that's done very quickly and is very easy to justify timewise. Bisecting mozilla-central is a hard task that takes a lot of time. Bas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert O'Callahan" <rob...@ocallahan.org> To: "Bas Schouten" <bschou...@mozilla.com> Cc: "dev-platform" <dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 10:36:34 PM Subject: Re: Moz2D Repository Creation On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Bas Schouten < bschou...@mozilla.com > wrote: I would argue this is probably true. As I've talked to a developer from a large third party where the discussion of if they would try to adjust their work to Moz2D literally ended at: 'I have to check out -all- of firefox? How big is that 2 Gig or something?' I think it's certainly the largest practical and mental barrier. I find that difficult to understand. Mostly that just means you go to lunch while your "hg clone" runs. Maybe it's a mental thing but I don't think that should be a driver of our strategy hear. Rob -- Wrfhf pnyyrq gurz gbtrgure naq fnvq, “Lbh xabj gung gur ehyref bs gur Tragvyrf ybeq vg bire gurz, naq gurve uvtu bssvpvnyf rkrepvfr nhgubevgl bire gurz. Abg fb jvgu lbh. Vafgrnq, jubrire jnagf gb orpbzr terng nzbat lbh zhfg or lbhe freinag, naq jubrire jnagf gb or svefg zhfg or lbhe fynir — whfg nf gur Fba bs Zna qvq abg pbzr gb or freirq, ohg gb freir, naq gb tvir uvf yvsr nf n enafbz sbe znal.” [Znggurj 20:25-28] _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
