Nice work Nick - some really good content here. I’ve spent a good chunk of today reading through and giving it a copy edit.
Chris Mills Senior tech writer || Mozilla developer.mozilla.org || MDN cmi...@mozilla.com || @chrisdavidmills > On 10 Sep 2015, at 02:14, Nicholas Nethercote <n.netherc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Greetings, > > The 2015 Platform Engineering roadmap [1] > (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Roadmap) mentioned "Candle", an initiative > that aims to reduce the power consumption of Firefox (desktop and Android) and > Firefox OS, that sits alongside other well-known initiatives like CrashKill, > CritSmash, and MemShrink. This is finally getting off the ground in a > significant way. > > Details are on the wiki page [2]. Some highlights are as follows. > > - There is a new mailing list, dev-power [3]. We will initially try using the > mailing list for all discussion and bug triage in preference to face-to-face > meetings. This avoids disadvantaging anyone due to their timezone and also > makes it easy to follow along in a low-commitment fashion. > > - There is a new IRC channel, #power. > > - There are several new MDN documentation pages relating to power profiling > [4]. > > We hope Project Candle will extend and co-ordinate the existing patchwork of > efforts relating to power consumption. Although it is originating in Platform > Engineering, like all other cross-cutting quality initiatives it will need > involvement from people all over Mozilla engineering to be successful. If you > are at all interested in power consumption, I encourage you to do one or more > of the following things. > > - Easy (5 minutes or less): > - Read the wiki page [2]. > - Join the mailing list [3]. > > - Medium (1 hour or less): > - Read the tools documentation on MDN [4]. (Feedback is welcome!) > - Read through the bug lists (linked from the wiki > page; currently the "Unprioritized" list is the only non-empty one). > > - Harder: > - Work on a bug from one of the bug lists. > - Think about Q4 goals that might involve power consumption. > > I will start the first bug triage thread on the mailing list early next week. > > Please contact me if you have any questions or other feedback. Thank you. > > Nick > > [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Roadmap > [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Project_Candle > [3] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-power > [4] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Performance, > under "Power profiling" > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > dev-f...@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
