On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 04:02:20PM -0700, Gregory Szorc wrote: > > Also, the machines come with Windows by default. That's by design: that's > > where the bulk of Firefox users are. We will develop better products if > the > > machines we use every day resemble what actual users use. I would > encourage > > developers to keep Windows on the new machines when they are issued. > > Except actual users are not using i9s or dual xeons. Yes, we have > slower reference hardware, but that also makes the argument of using the > same thing as actual users less relevant: you can't develop on machines > that actually look like what users have. So, as long as you have the > slower reference hardware to test, it doesn't seem to me it should > matter what OS you're running on your development machine. Host OS matters for finding UI bugs and issues with add-ons (since lots of add-on developers are also on Linux or MacOS). I concede that performance testing on i9s and Xeons is not at all indicative of the typical user :) _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
