Windows CPU power settings

2016-12-12 Thread Gregory Szorc
I've been assessing new hardware options for Mozilla to issue to developers. As part of evaluating some dual socket Xeon processors, I found some unexpected behavior: these processors routinely underclock in Windows 10 unless several cores or are used. Contrast with the behavior of my i7 Skylake pr

Re: Nathan Froyd is now a build peer

2016-12-12 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
Congratulations, Nathan! It's not unusual for module peers to be experts in only part of a module, so that part sounds fine to me. Nick On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 6:17 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > Nathan Froyd has been doing a lot of great work at the periphery of the > build system for years, espe

Nathan Froyd is now a build peer

2016-12-12 Thread Gregory Szorc
Nathan Froyd has been doing a lot of great work at the periphery of the build system for years, especially around toolchain configuration and management. Recently, he's been improving our integration with Rust! I've been trying to cajole Nathan into being a build peer for a while. After half-jokin

Big Picture View: L10n Releng/Build work, 2017

2016-12-12 Thread Justin Wood
Hey Everyone, I want to share with you all the big picture view of where I see L10n (L20n too) Automation over the course of this next year. Last week in Hawaii, myself, Pike, gps, and mshal met and discussed the overall plan and what we need from each other, we discussed what my rough plan is as