Re: [Update] Revert RESOLVED:INACTIVE State

2018-05-28 Thread Erin Lancaster
Of course, happy to get us back to a good place and very sorry for all of the inconvenience. We haven't had any further requests for exclusions for the revert: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1464312. It would be helpful to get any other requests in asap. Dylan will be checking the ti

Re: Removing tinderbox-builds from archive.mozilla.org

2018-05-28 Thread Chris AtLee
On Sun, 20 May 2018 at 19:40, Karl Tomlinson wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2018 13:13:04 -0400, Chris AtLee wrote: > > IMO, it's not reasonable to keep CI builds around forever, so the question > > is then how long to keep them? 1 year doesn't quite cover a full ESR cycle, > > would 18 months be suffi

Re: [Update] Revert RESOLVED:INACTIVE State

2018-05-28 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 5/25/18 5:07 PM, Erin Lancaster wrote: Here’s where we are with timing/process for the revert: Erin, Thank you for all the work you've put in on this. I know it hasn't been easy dealing with this, and I really appreciate it. -Boris ___ dev-pla

Re: Upcoming C++ standards meeting in Rapperswil, Switzerland

2018-05-28 Thread Jet Villegas
The New checker features look really promising. Yes, more of this stuff in C++ is very welcome. On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 1:53 PM, Chris Peterson wrote: > On 2018-05-23 1:35 PM, Botond Ballo wrote: > >> There is also work being done in this area outside the formal >> standards process, in the form

Re: Upcoming C++ standards meeting in Rapperswil, Switzerland

2018-05-28 Thread Jet Villegas
The continued work on the 2D GFx API as a C++ standard is concerning. Since we're sending a GFx engineer to the committee, and AFAIK we're not going to use such an API to build our GFx stack, the arguments against continued development seem very compelling: - there are no clear users or dem

Re: Upcoming C++ standards meeting in Rapperswil, Switzerland

2018-05-28 Thread Jet Villegas
On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 1:35 PM, Botond Ballo wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 4:05 PM, Jet Villegas > wrote: > > I'd rather see the committee focus on things like object lifetime > management > > so we don't have to port everything to Rust just to get basic memory > safety > > guarantees. How m

Update on rustc/clang goodness

2018-05-28 Thread Anthony Jones
You may already know that the Low-Level Tools team support important tools and code infrastructure. Lately we’ve also been improving our rustc/clang (LLVM) story and I’d like bring everyone up to date. There are a lot of important and interesting things going on:

Re: Firefox data engineering newsletter, Q1 2018

2018-05-28 Thread Susheel Daswani
Hi Georg, thanks for rolling this up! As you know Android / Mobile is a huge focus for all of Mozilla in 2018 - can you please call out which of your 2018 focus areas incorporate improvements for Android / Mobile? On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:20 AM, Georg Fritzsche wrote: > As the Firefox data eng