Re: Intent to implement: Disabling auto-play videos on mobile networks/devices?

2014-08-26 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > Seems to me there might be value in applying -style controls > to animated s *in general* -- not just for mobile. That's a great idea! Nick ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozil

Re: PSA: ./mach build doesn't work reliably any longer

2014-08-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:34:29PM -0400, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > On 2014-08-26, 6:05 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:40:39AM -0400, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > >>>Well, reading this thread, it doesn't seem mach build dir is broken for > >>>the use people make of it, which is to buil

Re: Switching to Visual Studio 2013

2014-08-26 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2014-08-26, 9:14 PM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote: On 8/26/2014 6:20 PM, Neil wrote: Ehsan Akhgari wrote: I was talking about MSVC2012 + the November CTP. We absolutely don't want to support older versions of 2012 (or 2013 for that matter.) What does that mean and why isn't it mentioned on MDN

Re: PSA: ./mach build doesn't work reliably any longer

2014-08-26 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2014-08-26, 6:05 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:40:39AM -0400, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: Well, reading this thread, it doesn't seem mach build dir is broken for the use people make of it, which is to build in a single directory. What people want apparently, is more being able to

Re: Switching to Visual Studio 2013

2014-08-26 Thread Joshua Cranmer 🐧
On 8/26/2014 6:20 PM, Neil wrote: Ehsan Akhgari wrote: I was talking about MSVC2012 + the November CTP. We absolutely don't want to support older versions of 2012 (or 2013 for that matter.) What does that mean and why isn't it mentioned on MDN? The MSVC development team announced in 2012

Re: Please help test e10s

2014-08-26 Thread Jim Mathies
Thanks! I guess if I'm going to ask for help, I should provide information to help people who might be interested in looking at this. We have an uber tracking bug for test failures [1] with various sub-bugs for specific areas. Not all test failures are covered here though, it's probably simple

Re: Switching to Visual Studio 2013

2014-08-26 Thread Neil
Ehsan Akhgari wrote: I was talking about MSVC2012 + the November CTP. We absolutely don't want to support older versions of 2012 (or 2013 for that matter.) What does that mean and why isn't it mentioned on MDN? -- Warning: May contain traces of nuts. _

Re: PSA: ./mach build doesn't work reliably any longer

2014-08-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:40:39AM -0400, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > >Well, reading this thread, it doesn't seem mach build dir is broken for > >the use people make of it, which is to build in a single directory. What > >people want apparently, is more being able to build a single file or set > >of fil

Re: Running mochitests from a copy of the objdir?

2014-08-26 Thread Jonathan Griffin
On 8/20/2014 11:24 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: It sounds like the "copy build to remote machine so we can run tests there" is somewhat common and needs to be better supported by the tools. I think it makes sense to leverage test archives and build packages for this. Since mozharness already su

Re: Please help test e10s

2014-08-26 Thread Gavin Sharp
I spoke to Mark Hammond about this yesterday. Mark has done some work getting the browser-chrome tests running (bug 932142), but that work was put aside for the FxA-Sync-in-29 push earlier this year. We have a work week next week, we'll try to figure out how he can best help broaden test coverage f

Re: Disabling a few mochitests this week, and upcoming changes next week to browser-chrome

2014-08-26 Thread Gavin Sharp
Thanks for the update! Very helpful. For bug 1058695, it looks like bz/khuey are trying to rope in Nikhil to help - Nikhil, I don't know what the rest of your current workload looks like, but if you could help chase that bug down that would be very helpful. For bug 1041594, it looks like we need

Re: Intent to implement: Disabling auto-play videos on mobile networks/devices?

2014-08-26 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 2014-08-25 1:04 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: That said, if you have ideas for how we can do even better, definitely speak up. I'd be happy to stop downloading animated gifs over a certain size over mobile connections if we can have some UI which lets the user resume the download. Seems to me th

Re: Disabling a few mochitests this week, and upcoming changes next week to browser-chrome

2014-08-26 Thread Joel Maher
I wanted to post an update. We are very close to achieving all green tests on browser-chrome (tracking in bug 1057512)- there are 3 bugs remaining: *Bug 525284* - browser_bug400731.js is fragile, not always passing ** patch for review, should b

Submit feedback for improving Mercurial

2014-08-26 Thread Gregory Szorc
(Apologies if this is a double post. The archives say this never made it to dev.platform.) There will be a large gathering of Mercurial contributors this weekend discuss the future of Mercurial and to set an agenda for improving it. Proposed topics are listed at [1]. Mozilla is one of the la

Re: Handing over XPCOM module ownership to Nathan Froyd

2014-08-26 Thread Doug Turner
Congrats Benjamin. Good luck Nathan! On Aug 26, 2014, at 10:20 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: > Over the past year, Nathan Froyd has been an excellent peer for the XPCOM > code module, providing thoughtful and fast reviews and guidance. I'm happy > and excited to hand over ownership responsibi

Handing over XPCOM module ownership to Nathan Froyd

2014-08-26 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
Over the past year, Nathan Froyd has been an excellent peer for the XPCOM code module, providing thoughtful and fast reviews and guidance. I'm happy and excited to hand over ownership responsibilities to Nathan. I have been a peer/owner of XPCOM for close to ten years now, since before I was a

Re: Please help test e10s

2014-08-26 Thread Jim Mathies
"Ryan VanderMeulen" wrote in message news:... I won't lie, I'm quite hesitant to dogfood something that has no automated test coverage on my platform. And looking at Holly, I'm not entirely sure *why* m-e10s isn't enabled for Win7/Win8 opt. I've been trying to get those last few mochitest-p

Re: Switching to Visual Studio 2013

2014-08-26 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2014-08-26, 11:39 AM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote: On 8/26/2014 10:37 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: On 2014-08-26, 11:29 AM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote: On 8/26/2014 10:09 AM, Ted Mielczarek wrote: On 8/26/2014 11:03 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: I would like us to update the minimum supported MSVC version t

Re: Switching to Visual Studio 2013

2014-08-26 Thread Joshua Cranmer 🐧
On 8/26/2014 10:37 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: On 2014-08-26, 11:29 AM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote: On 8/26/2014 10:09 AM, Ted Mielczarek wrote: On 8/26/2014 11:03 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: I would like us to update the minimum supported MSVC version to 2012 as soon as possible. That will give us acc

Re: Switching to Visual Studio 2013

2014-08-26 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2014-08-26, 11:29 AM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote: On 8/26/2014 10:09 AM, Ted Mielczarek wrote: On 8/26/2014 11:03 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: I would like us to update the minimum supported MSVC version to 2012 as soon as possible. That will give us access to the following C++ features which are a

Re: Switching to Visual Studio 2013

2014-08-26 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2014-08-26, 11:16 AM, Lars Hansen wrote: From: "Ehsan Akhgari" Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 5:03:31 PM Subject: Re: Switching to Visual Studio 2013 I would like us to update the minimum supported MSVC version to 2012 as soon as possible. That will give us access to the following C++ featu

Re: Switching to Visual Studio 2013

2014-08-26 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2014-08-26, 11:09 AM, Ted Mielczarek wrote: On 8/26/2014 11:03 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: I would like us to update the minimum supported MSVC version to 2012 as soon as possible. That will give us access to the following C++ features which are all supported on gcc 4.4 (aka our Vintage Compil

Re: Switching to Visual Studio 2013

2014-08-26 Thread Joshua Cranmer 🐧
On 8/26/2014 10:09 AM, Ted Mielczarek wrote: On 8/26/2014 11:03 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: I would like us to update the minimum supported MSVC version to 2012 as soon as possible. That will give us access to the following C++ features which are all supported on gcc 4.4 (aka our Vintage Compiler)

Re: Experiment with running debug tests less often on mozilla-inbound the week of August 25

2014-08-26 Thread Chris AtLee
Just a short note to say that this experiment is now live on mozilla-inbound. signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Switching to Visual Studio 2013

2014-08-26 Thread Lars Hansen
> From: "Ehsan Akhgari" > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 5:03:31 PM > Subject: Re: Switching to Visual Studio 2013 > > I would like us to update the minimum supported MSVC version to 2012 as > soon as possible. That will give us access to the following C++ > features which are all supported on g

Re: Switching to Visual Studio 2013

2014-08-26 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On 8/26/2014 11:03 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > > I would like us to update the minimum supported MSVC version to 2012 > as soon as possible. That will give us access to the following C++ > features which are all supported on gcc 4.4 (aka our Vintage Compiler) > and MSVC starting from 2012: > > * Va

Re: Switching to Visual Studio 2013

2014-08-26 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2014-08-26, 6:57 AM, Ted Mielczarek wrote: On 8/26/2014 2:03 AM, Makoto Kato wrote: When do we support old version of Visual Studio after switching to VS2013? Now we still support VS2010 + SDK 7.1 as minimal requirement. Generally we have worked with a few unofficial guidelines for toolcha

Re: PSA: ./mach build doesn't work reliably any longer

2014-08-26 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2014-08-25, 6:17 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 06:06:17PM -0400, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: On 2014-08-25, 4:49 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: On 8/25/14 1:15 PM, L. David Baron wrote: On Monday 2014-08-25 10:27 -0700, Bill McCloskey wrote: Even if a full no-op build took no time, par

Re: Please help test e10s

2014-08-26 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2014-08-26, 10:13 AM, Ryan VanderMeulen wrote: On 8/25/2014 11:01 PM, Chris Peterson wrote: The e10s team has completed our M1 milestone to fix major pain points for dogfood testing. Now it's time to dogfood! :) To enable e10s, flip the "browser.tabs.remote.autostart" pref to true and restar

Re: Please help test e10s

2014-08-26 Thread Ryan VanderMeulen
On 8/25/2014 11:01 PM, Chris Peterson wrote: The e10s team has completed our M1 milestone to fix major pain points for dogfood testing. Now it's time to dogfood! :) To enable e10s, flip the "browser.tabs.remote.autostart" pref to true and restart Nightly. (Please don't bother testing e10s in oth

Re: Intent to implement: Disabling auto-play videos on mobile networks/devices?

2014-08-26 Thread Patrick McManus
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 3:03 AM, Justin Dolske wrote: > I think it would make a lot of sense to have an explicit "low bandwidth > mode" that did stuff like this, instead of trying to address it piecemeal. > There's all kinds of stuff that can consume bandwidth, and if we think it's > a real conce

Documenting locations for testing preferences

2014-08-26 Thread Georg Fritzsche
Hi, our testing locations are spread out a little much over many different locations (see e.g. bug 1023483), so i started documenting some of them: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Automated_testing#Need_to_set_preferences_for_test-suites.3F Feel free to add more locations (an

Re: Switching to Visual Studio 2013

2014-08-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 06:57:15AM -0400, Ted Mielczarek wrote: > On 8/26/2014 2:03 AM, Makoto Kato wrote: > > When do we support old version of Visual Studio after switching to > > VS2013? > > > > Now we still support VS2010 + SDK 7.1 as minimal requirement. > > > Generally we have worked with a f

Re: Switching to Visual Studio 2013

2014-08-26 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On 8/26/2014 2:03 AM, Makoto Kato wrote: > When do we support old version of Visual Studio after switching to > VS2013? > > Now we still support VS2010 + SDK 7.1 as minimal requirement. > Generally we have worked with a few unofficial guidelines for toolchain support: 1) If an older version of a to

Re: Switching to Visual Studio 2013

2014-08-26 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On 8/26/2014 2:03 AM, Makoto Kato wrote: > When do we support old version of Visual Studio after switching to > VS2013? > > Now we still support VS2010 + SDK 7.1 as minimal requirement. > Generally we have worked with a few unofficial guidelines for toolchain support: 1) If an older version of a to

Intent to ship: CSS mask-type property

2014-08-26 Thread Dirk Schulze
in CR. http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/CR-css-masking-1-20140826/ I’ll upload the patch for shipping here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1058519 Greetings, Dirk ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https