Re: Revamping touch input on Windows

2013-04-18 Thread Tim Abraldes
>> The metro/WinRT widget backend can take advantage of native gesture >> recognition, so maybe in the future we would want to implement the >> ability to opt-out of front-end gesture recognition. I don't think we >> should do this in the immediate term, but as backends get better and >> better nat

Tree closure for infrastructure work, Sunday 21April2013 10:00-14:00PT

2013-04-18 Thread John O'Duinn
hi; We will have a treeclosing maintenance window Sunday, April 21 from 10:00-14:00PT (17:00-21:00UTC). This is for changes and upgrades to firewalls in the scl3 colo. More details in tracking bug https://bugzil.la/862956. All trees will be closed during this period. Jobs in progress at start of

Re: Preparing for the next windows PGO build memory exhaustion

2013-04-18 Thread Matt Brubeck
On 4/18/2013 12:10 PM, Matt Brubeck wrote: Since we run PGO builds only a few times a day, the ranges can be large. For those that include m-c merges, you could narrow them down using the m-c data. WebIDL seems to be a common theme. I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=863492

Re: Using a pre-processing flag to auto-disable features in later Beta versions

2013-04-18 Thread Robert Kaiser
Lukas Blakk schrieb: * Releng automation to switch/edit mozconfigs for earlier betas to check for this flag I think it would be good if we wouldn't have to rely on releng there, as this again introduces the factor of someone possibly forgetting to do this. Ideally this should be fully automa

Re: Using a pre-processing flag to auto-disable features in later Beta versions

2013-04-18 Thread Lukas Blakk
On Apr 18, 2013, at 1:18 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > > I think this is a good idea. I've wanted it for a while as well. I've even > already filed a build config bug to support it: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=853071. > > What we don't have are specific and common use cases th

Re: Using a pre-processing flag to auto-disable features in later Beta versions

2013-04-18 Thread Ben Hearsum
On 04/18/13 04:03 PM, Lukas Blakk wrote: > Hello, > > I'm following up on an action from our Firefox 20 Post-Mortem where it was > discussed that it would be helpful to have a way to pref on a set of features > that want to be in early Beta builds to garner feedback and audience reach > but sho

Re: Using a pre-processing flag to auto-disable features in later Beta versions

2013-04-18 Thread Gregory Szorc
On 4/18/13 1:03 PM, Lukas Blakk wrote: Hello, I'm following up on an action from our Firefox 20 Post-Mortem where it was discussed that it would be helpful to have a way to pref on a set of features that want to be in early Beta builds to garner feedback and audience reach but should not ship

Using a pre-processing flag to auto-disable features in later Beta versions

2013-04-18 Thread Lukas Blakk
Hello, I'm following up on an action from our Firefox 20 Post-Mortem where it was discussed that it would be helpful to have a way to pref on a set of features that want to be in early Beta builds to garner feedback and audience reach but should not ship since they are not ready for public cons

Re: Preparing for the next windows PGO build memory exhaustion

2013-04-18 Thread Matt Brubeck
On 4/17/2013 3:07 PM, Matt Brubeck wrote: analyze_talos.py does identify several real regressions in that dataset -- but it suppresses emails for them because each one is an increase of less than 2% (see bug 822249). Here are regressions identified by the latest version of analyze.py: In case

Re: Revamping touch input on Windows

2013-04-18 Thread Jim Mathies
"Tim Abraldes" wrote in message news:... > > 1) abandon generating nsIDOMSimpleGestureEvents on Windows for both > backends > > when processing touch input from touch input displays.* > > > > This would mean that if the desktop front end wants to do something with > > pinch or zoom, it would have

Re: Revamping touch input on Windows

2013-04-18 Thread Tim Abraldes
> 1) abandon generating nsIDOMSimpleGestureEvents on Windows for both backends > when processing touch input from touch input displays.* > > This would mean that if the desktop front end wants to do something with > pinch or zoom, it would have to process W3C touch events instead. Note that > we co

Revamping touch input on Windows

2013-04-18 Thread Jim Mathies
We have quite a few issues with touch enabled sites on Windows. [1] Our support for touch stretches back to when we first implemented MozTouch events which over time has morphed into a weird combination of W3C touch / simple gestures support. It is rather messy to fix, but I'd like to get this

Re: Automatic tree clobbering is coming

2013-04-18 Thread Ed Morley
On 17/04/2013 20:51, Ms2ger wrote: On 04/17/2013 09:36 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: It /could/, sure. However, I consider auto clobbering a core build system feature (sheriffs were very vocal about wanting it). As such, it needs to be part of client.mk. (Please correct me if I am wrong.) This shou