Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: WebIDL Level 1

2016-10-11 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 10/11/16 6:57 PM, Bobby Holley wrote: Most development seems to happen under the WHATWG, which hosts the specs that implementors look at and the umbrella under which they discuss. The W3C then occasionally publishes arbitrary snapshots, which don't have any particular technical utility but, by

Re: [Firefox Desktop] Issues found: October 3rd to October 7

2016-10-11 Thread Cornel Ionce
Oups, sent the wrong link/bug number for the cloudsovercuba issue. Updated the list with the correct one. On 10/10/2016 4:18 PM, Cornel Ionce wrote: Hi everyone, Here's the list of new issues found and filed by the Desktop Release QA Team last week, *October 3**- October 7* (week 40). Add

Perfherder is currently broken

2016-10-11 Thread William Lachance
Hey all, Due to an unfortunate bug that went undiscovered until we migrated to Heroku last week, Perfherder currently isn't giving reliable results. I hope to have this fixed within the next couple of days (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1309294). No data should be lost, so we'll

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Web of Things Working Group

2016-10-11 Thread Martin Thomson
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 12:52 PM, L. David Baron wrote: > My initial reaction would be to worry about whether there's > properly-incubated material here that's appropriate to charter a > working group for, or whether this is more of a (set of?) research > projects. W3C has an existing Interest Gr

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: WebIDL Level 1

2016-10-11 Thread Bobby Holley
Yeah, from my not-super-informed perspective this is the primary benefit we get from W3C publication of stuff that's developed elsewhere. Most development seems to happen under the WHATWG, which hosts the specs that implementors look at and the umbrella under which they discuss. The W3C then occas

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: WebIDL Level 1

2016-10-11 Thread L. David Baron
On Tuesday 2016-10-11 14:49 +0200, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote: > > Speaking as someone who is at best a consumer of WebIDL, what's the argument > > for doing a snapshot at this time? > > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2016J

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: WebIDL Level 1

2016-10-11 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote: > Speaking as someone who is at best a consumer of WebIDL, what's the argument > for doing a snapshot at this time? https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2016JulSep/0004.html is presumably the argument. Those pointing out this ar

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: WebIDL Level 1

2016-10-11 Thread Eric Rescorla
Speaking as someone who is at best a consumer of WebIDL, what's the argument for doing a snapshot at this time? -Ekr On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 11:24 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Tuesday, 11 October 2016, L. David Baron wrote: > > > But given that it is worthwhile to advance snapshots of st

Re: Linux content sandbox tightened

2016-10-11 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On 11-10-16 03:00, Gerald Squelart wrote: > It seems this tightening is now preventing us from using ALSA: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247056#c167 > > Coincidentally, we have just disabled ALSA by default, but the code > is still there and can be enable in builds, so it'd be n