Re: Triage Plan for Firefox Components

2016-04-07 Thread Chris Hofmann
You might be able to create views into these triage queue's with combinations of existing keywords and maybe a few added ones. For example: Can reproduce Can others reproduce the problem described? has the inverse represented by needs-testcase for example. In the case of the bug

Re: Triage Plan for Firefox Components

2016-04-07 Thread Chris Hofmann
re: Determining answers to any or all of the above might require multiple rounds of dialog, and some of them need to be understood in sequence rather than in parallel. They also require very different sets of expertise to determine. Yes! We should set up systems and process and sk

Re: Firefox Hello new data collection

2016-04-05 Thread Chris Hofmann
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 3:01 AM, Romain Testard wrote: > > Firefox Hello has its own privacy notice (details here > ). > > Its unclear to me reading the follow through link to the TokBox Privacy Policy. -> https://tokbox.com/support/privacy-p

Re: Firefox Hello new data collection

2016-04-04 Thread Chris Hofmann
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Ian Bicking wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Gijs Kruitbosch > > wrote: > > I put some comments about data bias against international users and the .edu domains and possible data leaks that could result directly in the bug. > > > > We looked into this

Re: Firefox Hello new data collection

2016-04-04 Thread Chris Hofmann
It also seems like you haven't explored other alternatives to get the data you are after, have some theories around what results you might expect, and what possible out comes will be pursed once you get the data. Have you looked at other studies like this and many more that tell about general brow

Re: Intent to deprecate: MacOS 10.6-10.8 support

2016-03-11 Thread Chris Hofmann
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: > > > On 3/10/2016 5:25 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: > >> >> It's unfair to mention those populations by percentage of the global >> Firefox population. >> > > Why do you think this is unfair? This is about making the best use of our > limited e

Re: Fingerprinting of battery status?

2015-08-04 Thread Chris Hofmann
I've seen a lot of GPS related tracking apps that use a lot of power putting up warnings to users that it might be time to go to low power mode and shut down the GPS if you'll need it later for navigating a critical pathway later in your journey. -chofmann On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Katelyn

Re: Voting in BMO

2015-06-11 Thread Chris Hofmann
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Mark Côté wrote: > > > > > There are a few of us still round from the origin of many of these > bugzilla > > features > > and for this one I think it was mostly just intended as a mechanism to > > make sure we > > had some ways to get a good collection of eyeball

Re: Voting in BMO

2015-06-11 Thread Chris Hofmann
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Mike Hoye wrote: > On 2015-06-11 3:48 PM, R Kent James wrote: > >> Maybe the correct fix is to start paying attention to votes. >> > If you choose your project priorities based on internet voting, you're > gonna have a bad time. > > The word "vote" implies that th

Re: Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP

2015-05-01 Thread Chris Hofmann
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Martin Thomson wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Eric Shepherd > wrote: > > There are a lot of things that don't need encryption, > > This assertion is made quite often in this context. It's been shown to > be false in every example I've seen. I think Ri

Re: Using rust in Gecko. rust-url compatibility

2015-04-30 Thread Chris Hofmann
check to see if we still have any automated crawlers still running that could go looking for problems. give the the folks that run the crawlers an instrumented build, and strong liquor for best results. -chofmann On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Jason Duell wrote: > +1 to asserting during test

Re: Tiles Design Questions (was Re: Improving trust and transparency for Suggested Tiles)

2015-04-24 Thread Chris Hofmann
I think this discussion has moved a bit off topic. Let's all assume that if the intent was to gather public feedback by a post in the newsgroup that a similar intent of having a meeting with interested participant would include a good sampling of people with interest, and that their employment sta

Re: Intent to ship: Web Speech API - Speech Recognition with Pocketsphinx

2014-10-30 Thread Chris Hofmann
On 10/30/14 5:24 PM, smaug wrote: On 10/31/2014 02:21 AM, smaug wrote: Intent to ship is too strong for this. We need to first have implementation landed and tested ;) I wouldn't ship the implementation in desktop FF without plenty of more testing. But I guess the question is what people t

Re: Breakdown of Firefox full installer

2014-10-13 Thread Chris Hofmann
On 10/13/14 5:16 PM, Justin Dolske wrote: On 10/13/14 4:54 PM, Chris More wrote: Why am I asking this? The win32 Firefox full installer continues to grow (see attachment) each release and it has been on an increasing growth since Firefox 29. Like anything on the web, the time it takes to downl

Re: Breakdown of Firefox full installer

2014-10-13 Thread Chris Hofmann
On 10/13/14 4:54 PM, Chris More wrote: I am imagining a pie chart of the the current installer and then a table of the name of each component, their size (KB or MB), and any additional meta data. Pie charts are usually not all that useful in this kind of analysis; but one is attached based

Re: Breakdown of Firefox full installer

2014-10-13 Thread Chris Hofmann
On 10/13/14 5:09 PM, Kyle Huey wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Chris More wrote: Does anyone know or could any of you create a breakdown of the major blocks of the Firefox installer and each of their respective sizes or percentage of the whole? For example, the win32 installer for Fi

Re: Target Milestone field in bugzilla

2014-01-16 Thread Chris Hofmann
On 1/16/14 11:36 AM, Daniel Veditz wrote: On 1/9/2014 9:47 AM, Gavin Sharp wrote: In theory (mine at least), the field is free to be used for planning which release you want the bug fixed in, before the bug is fixed. After the bug is fixed, it should be used as you describe. Some groups do use

Re: Target Milestone field in bugzilla

2014-01-09 Thread Chris Hofmann
On 1/9/14 9:53 AM, Chris Peterson wrote: On 1/9/14, 7:17 AM, Kartikaya Gupta wrote: I think the "Target Milestone" field is poorly named, at least with respect to what we use it for. In practice this field is set to the version of m-c on which the patches originally landed, and doesn't change wh

Re: Logging of "quality events"

2013-09-18 Thread Chris Hofmann
> suggestions for other types of error log events that should be include in this system On 9/18/13 1:52 PM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: hangs while running we should try to get a bit more pre-emptive and detailed about this kind of event. It would be great if I could look at a real-time hea

Re: Proposed policy change: reusability of tests by other browsers

2012-08-21 Thread Chris Hofmann
On 8/21/12 10:32 AM, L. David Baron wrote: On Tuesday 2012-08-21 09:43 -0700, Asa Dotzler wrote: On 8/21/2012 6:34 AM, Gervase Markham wrote: On 20/08/12 18:25, Asa Dotzler wrote: Can you say more about this? Are you saying it's Mozilla's responsibility to put Mozilla resources into solving pr