Re: Intent to remove: Error Console

2016-06-08 Thread Philip Chee
On 08/06/2016 22:59, Brian Grinstead wrote: >> The code isn't used at all in Firefox, as discussed in >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.developer-tools/XYPqQ58ndX4/discussion. >> It’s also now possible to migrate usages to the Browser Console >> i.e. Seamonkey is no longer usi

Re: Intent to Implement: New L10n/I18n framework for Gecko

2016-06-08 Thread Makoto Kato
Hi zb. I don't turn on ICU on Android version yet due to bug 1262102. So If it is only on Desktop browser, it can use it. On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 9:20 AM, wrote: > Summary: > > Gecko's localization framework has not really changed much in the last 20 > years and is based on two data formats -

Intent to Implement: New L10n/I18n framework for Gecko

2016-06-08 Thread zbraniecki
Summary: Gecko's localization framework has not really changed much in the last 20 years and is based on two data formats - DTD and .properties - neither have been designed for localization purposes. Our internationalization status is a combination of DIY helper functions, ICU based APIs and a

Re: The Whiteboard Tag Amnesty

2016-06-08 Thread Emma Humphries
The whiteboard field a text blob with no rules, only conventions on separators (which are not used consistently.) If you misspell a tag, there's no prompt to correct (unless the browser or os spell checker recognizes it) and you can get inconsistencies that way. As for "real tagging system" look,

Re: The Whiteboard Tag Amnesty

2016-06-08 Thread Chris Peterson
On 6/8/16 4:03 PM, Jason Duell wrote: Could we dig into details a little more here? I assume we could add a database index for the whiteboard field if performance is an issue. Do we give keywords an enum value or something (so bugzilla can index/search them faster)? I'm not clear on what a "rea

Re: The Whiteboard Tag Amnesty

2016-06-08 Thread Jason Duell
Emma, > it's not a indexed field or a real tag system, making it hard to parse, search, and update. Could we dig into details a little more here? I assume we could add a database index for the whiteboard field if performance is an issue. Do we give keywords an enum value or something (so bugzill

Re: The Whiteboard Tag Amnesty

2016-06-08 Thread Emma Humphries
There is a ticket for a "proper" tag system, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1266609 which given time, I'd like to get implemented, but with limited resources, this is what I can do now. On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Patrick McManus wrote: > as you note the whiteboard tags are per

Re: The Whiteboard Tag Amnesty

2016-06-08 Thread Emma Humphries
Yes, 'amnesty' is probably too strong a term, and 'cleanup' is probably better. -- Emma On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Patrick McManus wrote: > that's useful thanks. I think the word amnesty implied the death penalty > for existing whiteboard tags. > > what it sounds like is you're just offeri

Re: The Whiteboard Tag Amnesty

2016-06-08 Thread Patrick McManus
that's useful thanks. I think the word amnesty implied the death penalty for existing whiteboard tags. what it sounds like is you're just offering (for a limited time) to do conversions on an opt-in basis? That's great. -P On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Emma Humphries wrote: > > > > On Jun 8

Re: The Whiteboard Tag Amnesty

2016-06-08 Thread Emma Humphries
> On Jun 8, 2016, at 1:43 PM, Kartikaya Gupta wrote: > > What happens after June 24? Is the whiteboard field going to be removed? > No, the whiteboard field remains, but any tags migrated will be deleted from existing values. If a tag is used across teams, I'll work out a resolution such a

Re: The Whiteboard Tag Amnesty

2016-06-08 Thread Patrick McManus
as you note the whiteboard tags are permissionless. That's their killer property. Keywords as you note are not, that's their critical weakness. instead of fixing that situation in the "long term" can we please fix that as a precondition of converting things? Mozilla doesn't need more centralized s

Re: The Whiteboard Tag Amnesty

2016-06-08 Thread Kartikaya Gupta
What happens after June 24? Is the whiteboard field going to be removed? On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Emma Humphries wrote: > tl;dr -- nominate whiteboard tags you want converted to keywords. Do it by > 24 June 2016. > > We have a love-hate relationship with the whiteboard field in bugzilla. O

The Whiteboard Tag Amnesty

2016-06-08 Thread Emma Humphries
tl;dr -- nominate whiteboard tags you want converted to keywords. Do it by 24 June 2016. We have a love-hate relationship with the whiteboard field in bugzilla. On one hand, we can add team-specific meta data to a bug. On the other hand, it's not a indexed field or a real tag system, making it har

Re: Dropping support for VS2013

2016-06-08 Thread Gijs Kruitbosch
Who is responsible for updating our build documentation about this? It seems the docs still don't believe we can even build for sure on VS2015 (though it's been the recommended compiler for a while now), and list a number of SDKs that I'm not convinced you'd actually need to manually install if

Re: Intent to remove: Error Console

2016-06-08 Thread Brian Grinstead
Filed bug 1278368 to remove the code and bug 1278372 to remove the component from bugzilla. Brian > On Jun 8, 2016, at 7:57 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: > > \o/ > > Is there a bug to track this code removal? > > --BDS > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Brian Grinstead > wrote: > There is

Re: Intent to remove: Error Console

2016-06-08 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
\o/ Is there a bug to track this code removal? --BDS On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Brian Grinstead wrote: > There is an Error Console feature in toolkit that's been replaced by the > Browser Console. We'd like to remove associated code in > toolkit/components/console/ and the component in b

Re: Searchfox (new code search tool)

2016-06-08 Thread Richard Z
On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 09:35:34PM -0700, Bill McCloskey wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I would like to announce a new tool I've been working on for source > code searching called Searchfox (http://searchfox.org). If you use MXR > or DXR, I recommend you try Searchfox. Here are some of the benefits: c

Release management during Mozilla London ww

2016-06-08 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Hello, Next week, as announced in February [1], during our workweek in London, we are making a pause on the 48 developments. That means we won't build any beta version. The uplifts are also going to be be limited (both from release management andsheriffs). However, in case of critical or securi

Mozilla Sheriff Survey

2016-06-08 Thread Carsten Book
Hi, When we moved to the "inbound" model of tree management, the Tree Sheriffs became a crucial part of our engineering infrastructure. The primary responsibility of the Sheriffs is and will always be to aid developers to easily, quickly, and seamlessly land their code in the proper location(s) an