Re: PSA: New method for registering XPCOM components

2019-02-06 Thread Robert Helmer
On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 2:25 PM Kris Maglione wrote: > >* Perhaps a link (or multiple links) to MDN docs we already > >have on XPCOM components - which may provide an introduction as > >to what they are, when and why they’re used, etc. > > I'm not sure this is a good idea. Docs about Gecko internal

Re: New Policy: Marking Bugzilla bugs for features riding behind a pref

2018-05-03 Thread Robert Helmer
On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 11:57 AM, Adam Roach wrote: > On 5/3/18 12:18 PM, Nicholas Alexander wrote: >> >> Not all features are feasible to ship behind feature flags. > > > I'm pretty sure the proposed policy isn't intended to change anything > regarding features that ship without associated feature

Re: PSA: Chrome-only WebIDL interfaces no longer require DOM peer review

2018-03-12 Thread Robert Helmer
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:56 AM, Myk Melez wrote: > Nicholas Nethercote > 2018 March 9 at 20:02 > > What's your definition of XPCOM? > > This is basically what I'm asking Kris. I define it as the system that > Firefox uses to make intra- and inter-language calls between C++ and JS via > XPIDL and

Re: Still-supported cases of out-of-tree XPCOM code?

2017-11-15 Thread Robert Helmer
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 8:31 AM, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 04:12:06PM +0200, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Andrea Marchesini >>> >>> This is why we had this issue. It should not be impossible for a >>> 'standard' >>> webextension to generate such

Re: verifying unpacked signed add-ons

2017-11-03 Thread Robert Helmer
On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 3:43 PM, David Keeler wrote: > On 11/03/2017 03:34 PM, Robert Helmer wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 3:25 PM, David Keeler wrote: >>> [firefox-dev, dev-addons, and the enterprise mailing list cc'd - please >>> direct follow-up discussion to

Re: verifying unpacked signed add-ons

2017-11-03 Thread Robert Helmer
On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 3:25 PM, David Keeler wrote: > [firefox-dev, dev-addons, and the enterprise mailing list cc'd - please > direct follow-up discussion to dev-platform] > > Hello All, > > As you're no doubt aware, from 57 onwards, only signed WebExtensions > will be available as add-ons for th

intent to remove: standalone about:addons UI and tests

2017-03-22 Thread Robert Helmer
Currently we support running the about:addons UI in both a standalone window, and also in a browser tab. Firefox has only used the latter for many years, but we've continued to maintain tests for both, which increases both our maintenance burden and also the time it takes tests to run. This remov

Re: What are your use cases for the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro?

2017-01-03 Thread Robert Helmer
+1 on doing WebExt APIs in parallel - this can be done outside of mozilla-central on non-release channels using WebExtension Experiments (https://webextensions-experiments.readthedocs.io) Once the implementation in mozilla-central is settled down, the experimental API can be merged. On Tue, Jan 3

symbolapi downtime tomorrow noon PST (2015-03-04)

2015-03-04 Thread Robert Helmer
Hello, Per bug 1077633 we are taking symbolapi.m.o (used by the Gecko Profiler to do symbolication) down for preventative maintenance tomorrow at noon PST. Expected downtime is 1 hour. Thanks! Rob ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozill

symbol server (symbols.m.o) moved

2015-02-05 Thread Robert Helmer
Hello, We're now hosting symbols in S3, and have just completed the transition of the Mozilla symbol server (http://symbols.mozilla.org) in bug 1097209. If you use this service and notice any problems, please file a bug in Socorro::Infra (or just let me know) Thanks! Rob Helmer ___

Re: Tool for generation of regression-range links

2014-10-14 Thread Robert Helmer
e do this even more regularly, I figured >> it was worth automating. >> >> Right now the tool uses ES6 features `let` and `for...of` and so it only >> works in Firefox and not in Chrome. I figured for this audience that >> wouldn't be a problem. > > >

Re: Getting the current release version

2013-08-30 Thread Robert Helmer
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > On 8/30/13 7:09 AM, Eric Shepherd wrote: > >> This is sort-of-kind-of platform related, but only indirectly, so let me >> know if there's a better place to ask this question, please. >> >> If a web page needs to be able to display the curre