Re: Phabricator Update, July 2017

2017-07-17 Thread Edmund Wong
Mark Côté wrote: > It was announced in May > (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.tools/4qroY2Iia9I), > linked to in this forum: > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/qh5scX3Gk2U/xCWe8jrOAQAJ I stand corrected, thanks. I would've thought that'd be put in moz.dev.plann

Re: Phabricator Update, July 2017

2017-07-17 Thread Edmund Wong
Hi Joe, I just want to publicly apologize for being sarcastic in my original post to you. I could've found a better voice and the frustration clouded my judgement. I'm sorry. Edmund ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://

Re: Phabricator Update, July 2017

2017-07-17 Thread Edmund Wong
Mike Hoye wrote: > > Given that we've been talking about this stuff for years now, I think > it's very clear that we haven't come to this point by "somebody at the > top issuing an edict that they want something modern"; the decision to > commit to Phabricator was ultimately announced on May 11th

Re: Phabricator Update, July 2017

2017-07-16 Thread Edmund Wong
Joe Hildebrand wrote: > I'm responding at the top of the thread here so that I'm not singling out any > particular response. > > We didn't make clear in this process how much work Mark and his team did > ahead of the decision to gather feedback from senior engineers on both Selena > and my team

Re: The future of commit access policy for core Firefox

2017-03-09 Thread Edmund Wong
Mike Connor wrote: > (please direct followups to dev-planning, cross-posting to governance, > firefox-dev, dev-platform) > > > Nearly 19 years after the creation of the Mozilla Project, commit access > remains essentially the same as it has always been. We've evolved the > vouching process a num

Re: Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP

2016-12-21 Thread Edmund Wong
Steve Fink wrote: > On 12/20/2016 06:20 PM, Edmund Wong wrote: >> Richard Barnes wrote: >> >>> Broadly speaking, this plan would entail limiting new features to >>> secure >>> contexts, followed by gradually removing legacy features from insecure >>

Re: Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP

2016-12-20 Thread Edmund Wong
Richard Barnes wrote: > There's pretty broad agreement that HTTPS is the way forward for the web. > In recent months, there have been statements from IETF [1], IAB [2], W3C > [3], and even the US Government [4] calling for universal use of > encryption, which in the case of the web means HTTPS. >

Re: Intent to ship: NetworkInformation

2016-12-19 Thread Edmund Wong
Eric Rescorla wrote: > > I'm also concerned that this spec does not seem to take into account > multipath or multihoming, both of which seem relevant here. Say that I have > a device with both a cellular and WiFi link and I attempt to use both of > them in some fashion (depending on the remote IP

Re: MXR permanently offline, please transition to DXR

2016-06-26 Thread Edmund Wong
Mike Hoye wrote: > On 2016-06-24 6:20 AM, Philip Chee wrote: >> >> I wonder what is necessary to set up an instance of MXR (for comm-*) on >> our own server (or vps). I would guess PERL, hg, and a Linux VM. > I've got the impression that comm-* has enough rocks to push up the > legacy-stack hill al

Re: MXR permanently offline, please transition to DXR

2016-06-23 Thread Edmund Wong
Ms2ger wrote: > On 22/06/16 20:30, Lawrence Mandel wrote: >> Mozilla Cross-Reference, better known as MXR (https://mxr.mozilla.org), was >> taken offline on June 13, 2016, to investigate a potential security issue. >> After careful review of the codebase, we have decided to accelerate the >> planne

Re: Merging comm-central into mozilla-central

2015-10-23 Thread Edmund Wong
Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > On 2015-10-23 2:17 PM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote: >> It's a relatively easy matter to fix the first; the second is harder to >> do for all contributors. I've been told it's a coming feature, but I've >> been told this for a while. >> >> I also wonder why you have a peculiar insi

Re: Announcing MozillaBuild 2.0.0 Release

2015-06-14 Thread Edmund Wong
Ryan VanderMeulen wrote: After a long wait, I am pleased to announce the final release of MozillaBuild 2.0.0. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/win32/MozillaBuildSetup-Latest.exe Much has changed since version 1.11.0, hence the change in major version number. It is STRONGL

sr flag question

2012-12-12 Thread Edmund Wong
Hi, Recently I read Dave Townsend's thread about "Super-review, what shall we do with you?" and realized there wasn't any conclusion to that. As a relative new dev, I think it is vital to have a clear distinction as to when a sr is required. I've only done a few patches that required sr (c-c st