Re: The state of the Aurora branch

2013-01-18 Thread Phil Ringnalda
On 1/18/13 2:06 PM, Mihai Sucan wrote: > At this point I hope aurora reopens ASAP. Apologies for the trouble. Nope. The devtools leaks, while interesting and potentially troublesome, weren't really a significant tree-closing problem. Now we're down to Linux64 and Win7 both failing (by which I mea

Re: The state of the Aurora branch

2013-01-18 Thread Mihai Sucan
Hello everyone! A summary of the situation: 1. bug 824016 was a known intermittent failure that we believe we fixed in m-c with bug 827083. I did some important changes to how the web console initializes / destroys - changes that we hope allow us to better ensure in our tests that we liste

No Rendering meeting this Monday --- might (or might not) be rescheduled to the following Monday

2013-01-18 Thread Benoit Jacob
Hi, Next Monday, the Graphics teem has a work week in Toronto. Given this and the low non-Gfx attendance in the last Rendering meeting or two, we think it's better not to have a Rendering meeting this Monday, but we will consider rescheduling it to the next Monday. Thanks, Benoit

Re: The state of the Aurora branch

2013-01-18 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:50 PM, L. David Baron wrote: > On Friday 2013-01-18 11:49 -0500, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > > I see. I think your assumption in point #2 above is mistaken. We > > do not close trees because of the gravity of issues affecting the > > code base. We do close them when there

Re: The state of the Aurora branch

2013-01-18 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2013-01-18 10:35 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: On related news, this thread diverged into multiple different private threads, and it seems like the devtools team has two patches in bugs 824016 and 774619 which can probably help. I have asked them to land both patches as they don't require approval

Re: The state of the Aurora branch

2013-01-18 Thread L. David Baron
On Friday 2013-01-18 11:49 -0500, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > I see. I think your assumption in point #2 above is mistaken. We > do not close trees because of the gravity of issues affecting the > code base. We do close them when there are busted builds or failing > tests because those prevent proper

Re: The state of the Aurora branch

2013-01-18 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2013-01-18 11:35 AM, Justin Lebar wrote: To restate dbaron's argument in my own words: 1. There is a known issue affecting both beta and aurora nightly builds. 2. Either the issue is or isn't serious enough to warrant closing the aurora tree. 3. If it is serious enough to warrant clos

Re: The state of the Aurora branch

2013-01-18 Thread Justin Lebar
> I was trying to suggest that we usually close trees for > build/test bustage, not for there being regressions there, so I don't see a > reason to close beta. I don't understand whether you're arguing that we > should close beta or are you just pointing out a problem in what I said. I was more t

Re: The state of the Aurora branch

2013-01-18 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2013-01-18 11:03 AM, Justin Lebar wrote: Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:39 AM, L. David Baron wrote: So given that this is a regression in Firefox 19 (which is now on beta), and the only reason we're not seeing this permaorange on beta is b

Re: The state of the Aurora branch

2013-01-18 Thread Justin Lebar
Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:39 AM, L. David Baron wrote: > >> So given that this is a regression in Firefox 19 (which is now on >> beta), and the only reason we're not seeing this permaorange on beta >> is because we don't generate non-debug ni

Re: The state of the Aurora branch

2013-01-18 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:39 AM, L. David Baron wrote: > So given that this is a regression in Firefox 19 (which is now on > beta), and the only reason we're not seeing this permaorange on beta > is because we don't generate non-debug nightly builds on beta (and I > don't think we run tests on an

Using the nsIObserver and nsIObserverService

2013-01-18 Thread pmiller . xul
Hi, I am using nsIObserver from within javascript to subscribe to topics and nsIObserverService from C++ xpcom to push notification for topics to the UI. I noticed that the notifications are sent fine but the nsIObserver only receives them when I have a JS/XUL Gui interaction towards _any_ of m

Re: The state of the Aurora branch

2013-01-18 Thread L. David Baron
On Thursday 2013-01-17 17:58 -0500, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > The Aurora tree was closed yesterday by Ed because of the perma-orange > failure filed in bug 823989, which went unnoticed for quite some time > before Ed closed the tree. This morning, I tried to reproduce the bug > locally using the info