We will probably need to integrate telemetry to mach :) On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Kyle Huey <m...@kylehuey.com> wrote:
> Is there evidence that real humans are affected by this? > > - Kyle > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Mike Hoye <mh...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > > > > As far as I can tell from Bug 1110236 and my own testing, it's no longer > > possible to build Firefox on 32-bit Windows systems. Recent changes to > how > > we use our linker will reliably cause the error described in the bug. > > > > I've filed bug 1137346 to that effect; I don't see an answer, and I > > suspect building on 32-bit Windows is a thing of the past. > > > > I believe this is an unexpected side effect of the recent libXUL > > consoldiation; I haven't been able to find anyone anticipating this in > > Bugzilla, and we certainly didn't update the relevant documentation. I > know > > that this is a problem for exactly zero of Mozilla's employees, but it's > > potentially a deal-breaker for many of our contributors. Asking civilians > > to upgrade their OS in order to keep participating is a really big ask, > and > > we've accidentally forced this upgrade-or-go-away decision on some of our > > community members with zero advance warning. > > > > I was really happy that the burden on community participantion was > > considered when we moved to VS2013 as the windows minimum environment. > That > > said, I don't know how many contributors this affects, and I can guess > that > > it's too late to roll back the libXUL changes at my > numerically-unsupported > > request. > > > > Instead, I propose that we stand up a variety of old, slow, minimum-spec > > "approved" development boxes, build on them daily. If forward progress > > means we need to abandon a category of developers' machines, I ask that > we > > try to do that with as much transparency and advance notice as we'd > grant a > > category of users in the same position. > > > > Thanks. > > > > - mhoye > > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1110236 > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1137346 > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
