Intent to ship: Retained Display Lists (rollout plan)

2018-06-19 Thread David Bolter
Hi All, Retained Display Lists (RDL) will be enabled for release-channel users in Firefox 61, with a gradual rollout [1]. - RDL will be initially disabled for all users, then 2 days after FF61 go-live, we push RDL to 25% of users. - We then monitor for a week, then push RDL to 50% of use

Re: Intent to move Activity Stream into its own process

2018-06-19 Thread Kris Maglione
On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 06:26:11PM +0200, Dão Gottwald wrote: This is about the code behind about:newtab and about:home, yes? Or some broader Activity Stream magic? Activity Stream has become kind of a fuzzy term, to the point where I'm not sure anymore what it means. This is about about:home a

Fwd: WPT Developer Survey - June 2018

2018-06-19 Thread Andreas Tolfsen
If you run, write, or work with Web Platform Tests (WPT) in some capacity, we would like to invite you to answer a short survey. The survey helps us identify ergonomic problems so that we can improve the tools for building an interoperable web platform. -- >8 -- > From: Simon Pieters > Subject:

Re: Intent to move Activity Stream into its own process

2018-06-19 Thread Mike Conley
Hi Alex, Yes, I expect this to plug into the same process handling infrastructure that we already have for now. I also expect that we'll find some room for optimization while we're stomping around in this area. -Mike On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 at 09:13, Alex Gaynor wrote: > Do you have a sense of how

Re: Windows Address Sanitizer enabled on trunk

2018-06-19 Thread David Major
As of bug 1467126 these jobs are now running at tier 1. On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 3:16 PM David Major wrote: > > Bug 1360120 on inbound enables Windows ASan builds and tests on trunk > branches. > > Initially these are tier-2 while we confirm that this doesn't > introduce test flakiness. If nothing

Re: Intent to move Activity Stream into its own process

2018-06-19 Thread Alex Gaynor
Do you have a sense of how this is going to be implemented? Is there going to be specialized code for this, or is it going to be handled by all the general navigation changes for process-switching when you change sites? Alex On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 5:02 PM Mike Conley wrote: > > > > I am not su