Re: Using MozPhab without Arcanist

2019-10-24 Thread Axel Hecht
ersion to the latest MozPhab-0.1.55. I will check soon with this version. Thanks! Henrik You need to run self-update twice to move over to the pip version. Also, make sure to not run it while in a virtualenv like I did. Otherwise you end up uninstalling and installing it fro

mach lint -l l10n coming your way

2019-05-02 Thread Axel Hecht
ents, please file a bug in linting and CC me. Axel [1] https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/intl/l10n/l10n/fluent_tutorial.html#pseudolocalization [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548500 ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platfor

Re: Patching FF 52.9esr with v60+ Security updates possible?

2019-04-13 Thread Axel Hecht
. My personal take is that you may be able to apply a lot of the patches that have CVEs, but that's likely not going to get you a code base that is similarily secure as the one we're working on. Axel Am 13.04.19 um 00:43 schrieb Charles Robertson: Hi, I know this sounds like a stran

Re: Improving our usage of Bugzilla

2019-04-03 Thread Axel Hecht
- EPM help enhancement - Product help or the other way around? As you listed them the other way around, and that's not how I'd line them up. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/li

Re: PSA: Min clang / libclang requirement was updated not long ago...

2019-02-27 Thread Axel Hecht
Am 27.02.19 um 15:28 schrieb Nathan Froyd: On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 9:05 AM Axel Hecht wrote: Am 27.02.19 um 14:39 schrieb Nathan Froyd: On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 6:22 AM Kartikaya Gupta wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 3:40 AM Axel Hecht wrote: Can we please not force bootstrap? +1. In

Re: PSA: Min clang / libclang requirement was updated not long ago...

2019-02-27 Thread Axel Hecht
Am 27.02.19 um 14:39 schrieb Nathan Froyd: On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 6:22 AM Kartikaya Gupta wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 3:40 AM Axel Hecht wrote: Can we please not force bootstrap? +1. In general bootstrap isn't "rock solid" enough to force people into running it.

Re: PSA: Min clang / libclang requirement was updated not long ago...

2019-02-27 Thread Axel Hecht
to have my own install of hg, for the sake of extensions I use. ./mach bootstrap interferes with those decisions, so I can't run it anymore. Axel Am 26.02.19 um 19:17 schrieb Chris Peterson: Seems like mach bootstrap should have a clobber flag so anyone updating build tool dependencies c

Re: New and improved "about:config" for Firefox Desktop

2019-01-25 Thread Axel Hecht
to make that discoverable? Axel Am 24.01.19 um 20:31 schrieb Paolo Amadini: Last year a group of students, Luke, Matthias, and Vincent, designed and implemented a new version of "about:config" in order to improve the ergonomics and align the look and feel with other in-content Fir

Re: C++ standards proposal for a embedding library

2018-07-18 Thread Axel Hecht
nt on the interesting question of such a stdlib thing, and how that impacts choice and innovation on the web space. Which should be a more important question probably for mozilla. Axel Am 18.07.18 um 21:55 schrieb Botond Ballo: On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 3:32 PM, Jeff Gilbert wrote: It feels

Re: Intent To Require Manifests For Vendored Code In mozilla-central

2018-04-10 Thread Axel Hecht
also .hgignore). There's no spec what happens with patches that fail to apply, or failed run_after scripts. Do we intend to do something if the LICENSE changes? Also, what are we supposed to do if the vendored code doesn't have a LICENSE file? Axel Am 10.04.18 um 06:25 schrieb glob:

Re: FYI: Short Nightly Shield Study involving DNS over HTTPs (DoH)

2018-03-21 Thread Axel Hecht
e scope, not so much about if we should do it. Axel Am 19.03.18 um 18:08 schrieb Selena Deckelmann: Hi! Thanks for all the thoughtful comments about this experiment. The intent of this work is to provide users privacy-respecting DNS. Status quo for DNS does not offer many users reasonable, infor

Re: Password autofilling

2018-01-02 Thread Axel Hecht
e start blocking tracking-providers with this practice in general? As much as this sounds like an arm-race, these providers are only valuable if they're on a lot of sites, so this might actually be a winnable arm-race. Axel ___ dev-platform

Re: INTENT TO DEPRECATE (taskcluster l10n routing)

2017-12-04 Thread Axel Hecht
Am 04.12.17 um 05:42 schrieb Jet Villegas: On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 05:15 Axel Hecht <mailto:l...@mozilla.com>> wrote: Am 01.12.17 um 16:45 schrieb Justin Wood: > Hey Everyone, > > tl;dr if you don't download nightly l10n repacks via taskcluster index

Re: INTENT TO DEPRECATE (taskcluster l10n routing)

2017-12-03 Thread Axel Hecht
ny questions or concerns. No concerns, just curiousity. We're not running any tests on localized builds at this point, right? Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Proposal to remove some preferences override support

2017-11-02 Thread Axel Hecht
Looping in mkaply explicitly, if that has impact on organizational deployments. Axel Am 02.11.17 um 00:41 schrieb Nicholas Nethercote: Greetings, In https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413413 I am planning to remove a couple of things relating to preferences. 1) Remove the

Re: Changes to tab min-width

2017-10-04 Thread Axel Hecht
with are mostly tabs on similar sites, so the favicons don't provide any practical value. Axel Jeff On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Marco Bonardo wrote: On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 10:36 PM, Jeff Griffiths wrote: 1. do you prefer the existing behaviour or the new behaviour? 2. if you pre

Changes to how we localize Firefox - one repository to rule a hundred repositories

2017-09-07 Thread Axel Hecht
ith 57 is the only really sane and polite way to deal with that plan. The tracking bug is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1353655. Happy to answer questions Axel PS: a hundred repositories to rule them all? Yeah, we're moving from 3-4 for each of our ~100 localizations

Re: Mac/Win32/Win64 Nightly builds for some locales aren't being updated since 08-08

2017-08-11 Thread Axel Hecht
an submit a bug. Thanks! Please submit a bug if it's not working today, seems like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1389260 got fixed for today's nightly. Also CC me? Thanks Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platfor

Re: Phabricator and confidential reviews

2017-08-09 Thread Axel Hecht
s a bit on the additional private-attachment thing that Nicolas mentioned. Axel Am 09.08.17 um 02:30 schrieb Mark Côté: (Cross-posted to mozilla.tools) Hi, I have an update and a request for comments regarding Phabricator and confidential reviews. We've completed the functionality around l

Creating a localized build locally

2017-08-04 Thread Axel Hecht
never wanted to know about localized builds. Axel [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1387485 [2] https://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/?sort=lastchange [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Core&component=Build%20Config&cc=l..

Re: More Rust code

2017-07-18 Thread Axel Hecht
a bunch of doc updates in the meantime, which is good. I guess what I'm asking for is training on how to deal with rust code that other people wrote, maybe more so than writing rust code from scratch, starting with hello-world. Axel For case #2, there will always be people that don

Re: Scope of XML parser rewrite?

2017-05-24 Thread Axel Hecht
:-) Truth be told, though, we can only drop support when the last bit of UI is converted to L20n, and not just in Firefox, but also the other stuff. Y'know, Thunderbird, too, I guess. Axel My current goal is a drop-in replacement for expat with just the features gecko cares about, so jus

Re: Scope of XML parser rewrite?

2017-05-23 Thread Axel Hecht
ot parsing DTDs would be a deal-breaker for the foreseeable future, as we're abusing DTDs to localize X(H)TML documents. Axel PS. I hope I'm not spamming you guys too hard, I'm kind of new to the mailing list thing. Daniel Fath, daniel.fa...@gmail.com __

Re: Future of out-of-tree spell checkers?

2017-03-22 Thread Axel Hecht
Jorge Note, that bug seems about using an API like mozISpellCheckingEngine from web extensions. It doesn't seem to be about providing an implementation of it via a web extension. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla

Re: Deprecating XUL in new UI

2017-01-17 Thread Axel Hecht
tions might be another good example, webgl shaders? Lastly, this wasn't mentioned, sometimes React and Global State go together, so if you're interested in that, please hit me with questions. I know more today on why we failed on http://www-archive.mozilla.org/x

fyi, ./mach hangs on terminal-notifier? brew update to 1.7.1

2016-10-05 Thread Axel Hecht
Hi, as an fyi, I almost filed a bug on mach hanging on terminal-notifier after the end of a build or packaging step. Seems that was a bug in terminal-notifier 1.7.0, another brew update/upgrade updated that to 1.7.1 and fixed it. Just in case you've been in that boat.

Re: Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-10-04 Thread Axel Hecht
On 04/10/16 17:40, Fabrice Desre wrote: On 10/04/2016 08:34 AM, Axel Hecht wrote: I'd favor to remove at least anything related to l10n from b2g. It never really worked, and is a half-maintained copy of the almost-working stuff in mobile. In my local branches that try to create a te

Re: Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-10-04 Thread Axel Hecht
lmost-working stuff in mobile. In my local branches that try to create a test on broken l10n infrastructure, both mobile and b2g show up, and my preferred way to fix b2g would be to remove it (the l10n parts). Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-pla

Re: MXR permanently offline, please transition to DXR

2016-07-11 Thread Axel Grude
That will be really useful, thanks! All I need now is an open search engine for c-c to plug into Firefox search box. ;) Axel On 11 Jul 2016 03:09, "Peter Elmers" wrote: > If it helps anyone, I happen to know that there exists an addon which > visits all anchor tags on a p

Re: Questions about bindings for L20n

2016-06-13 Thread Axel Hecht
. That's obviously cached, so it happens at first occasion. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Triage Plan for Firefox Components

2016-03-30 Thread Axel Hecht
n the expectations, or above or below? Axel On 29/03/16 22:07, Emma Humphries wrote: tl;dr In Quarter Two I'm implementing the work we’ve been doing to improve triage, make actionable decisions on new bugs, and prevent us from shipping regressions in Firefox. Today I’m asking for feedb

Re: Intent to implement: W3C WebAppSec credentialmanagement API

2016-03-11 Thread Axel Nennker
Am Freitag, 11. März 2016 05:27:34 UTC+1 schrieb Martin Thomson: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 5:56 AM, Axel Nennker wrote: > > no password generation help by the UA > > I agree with MattN here, not doing this eliminates much of the > advantage of having a password manager. Or do

Intent to implement: W3C WebAppSec credentialmanagement API

2016-03-10 Thread Axel Nennker
Summary: This API is enabling a website to request a user's credentials from a user agent, and helps the user agent to correctly store user credentials for future use. It helps the LoginManager to get rid of most of the heuristics. Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1156047 Link to

Re: Proposing preferring Clang over GCC for developer buidls

2016-03-03 Thread Axel Hecht
eep our CI builds close to what we intend to ship, for compiler/compiler-dependent bugs. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: rr chaos mode update

2016-02-16 Thread Axel Hecht
On 16/02/16 03:15, Kyle Huey wrote: Seems like a good thing to expect developers to do locally today. Two concerns: What's the successs criteria here? Also, speaking as an occasional code contributor, newcomers and folks like me will probably give up on contributing patches earlier.

Re: Bug Program Next Steps

2016-01-31 Thread Axel Hecht
for new process, finalize process Q2: implement new process across all components Q3: all newly triaged bugs following the new process Are there good metrics to use to evaluate the success and impact of this process? To pick up on what I said earlier, getting a cat

Re: Just Autoland It

2016-01-26 Thread Axel Hecht
sider that to be a problem is gonna be in a separate reply to a different post on this thread. Axel On 25/01/16 13:26, Honza Bambas wrote: Writing both as a patch author and a reviewer as well. - as a patch author I want a full control on when the patch actually lands (dependencies, any other

Re: Improving blame in Mercurial

2015-12-12 Thread Axel Hecht
used to drive what improvements Mercurial makes. A "reverse blame" feature that shows when a line in an old revision was deleted or changed in a newer revision is something I've desperately wanted. I just recently successfully used `hg grep --all` for that. Axel (Relatedly,

Re: Using the Taskcluster index to find builds

2015-12-02 Thread Axel Hecht
does one distinguish nightlies from non-nightlies under mozilla-central.latest? Assuming that nightlies might end up there on occasion? Axel On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Axel Hecht wrote: I haven't found localized builds and their assets by glancing at things. Are those to come

Re: Using the Taskcluster index to find builds

2015-12-01 Thread Axel Hecht
I haven't found localized builds and their assets by glancing at things. Are those to come? Also, I suspect we should rewrite wget-en-US? Or add an alternative that's index-bound? Axel On 11/30/15 9:43 PM, Chris AtLee wrote: The RelEng, Cloud Services and Taskcluster teams have

Re: Why do we flush layout in nsDocumentViewer::LoadComplete?

2015-11-26 Thread Axel Hecht
ly on this, given our tests do? Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Merge moved to Thursday 29th

2015-10-29 Thread Axel Hecht
I'd appreciate an ETA for the patch, as that's also going in to the risk that a patch comes with. Axel On 10/29/15 1:41 PM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: Please request the uplift. Under specific circumstances (like this one), we take string changes in aurora. Thanks Sylvestre Le 29/10/2

Re: Default window size on a screen of 1920x1080 or 1280x1024?

2015-09-16 Thread Axel Hecht
Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. Axel On 9/16/15 7:13 PM, Gavin Sharp wrote: See https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/annotate/3e8dde8f8c17/browser/base/content/browser.js#l1017 if you're wondering about Firefox specifically. Gavin On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Axel Hecht

Default window size on a screen of 1920x1080 or 1280x1024?

2015-09-16 Thread Axel Hecht
ng has the panels stacked side-by-side, but that depends on the window size. So we're trying to find out common window sizes for people. Some conversation in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1198287 Thanks Axel ___ dev-platform mailing li

Re: Largest chunks of code that are likely to be removable?

2015-06-30 Thread Axel Hecht
dencies to move rdf/ from mozilla-central into comm-central. mail has many more dependencies on RDF, I think. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Voting in BMO

2015-06-09 Thread Axel Hecht
it'd make sense. Axel On 6/10/15 12:09 AM, Mark Côté wrote: In a quest to simplify both the interface and the maintenance of bugzilla.mozilla.org, we're looking for features that are of questionable value to see if we can get rid of them. As I'm sure everyone knows, Bugzilla grew organ

Re: Mozillabuild 2.0 ready for testing

2015-03-09 Thread Axel Hecht
Hi Ryan, good news. One thing that's a bit unfortunate from the l10n perspective is the svn drop. SVN is still used quite frequently to host the website localizations, so keeping that in would be helpful. Axel, who should probably give this a test run in reals on his VM. On 3/9/15 2:

Re: Testing for expected crashes in both C++ and js, for printf checking

2015-02-20 Thread axel
On Friday, February 20, 2015 at 6:34:07 PM UTC+1, Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "Axel" == axel-4eJtQOnFJqFBDgjK7y7TUQ > >>>>> writes: > > Axel> We can only do this in the compiler if we actually compiled each > Axel> localized version b

Re: Testing for expected crashes in both C++ and js, for printf checking

2015-02-20 Thread axel
On Friday, February 20, 2015 at 12:57:44 PM UTC+1, Ted Mielczarek wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015, at 06:32 AM, a...@mozilla.com wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 6:33:42 PM UTC+1, Ted Mielczarek wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Axel Hecht

Re: Testing for expected crashes in both C++ and js, for printf checking

2015-02-19 Thread axel
On Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 11:27:11 PM UTC+1, Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "Axel" writes: > > Axel> I'm talking actual crashes, and I don't know how we would fix the > Axel> text formatter. I'm glancing at > Axel> > http://mx

Re: Testing for expected crashes in both C++ and js, for printf checking

2015-02-19 Thread axel
On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 6:33:42 PM UTC+1, Ted Mielczarek wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Axel Hecht wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to write tests to validate my assumptions around what's an error > > and what's a warning for local

Testing for expected crashes in both C++ and js, for printf checking

2015-02-17 Thread Axel Hecht
and a check if the segments are in, or if it crashes [1]. So I'll need a .cpp core, and a wrapper that feeds it data and checks the output. Any suggestions on how to do that "right"? Axel [1] '%f' being the reference string,

Re: Gmail calendar information for Platform Engineering meeting

2014-12-19 Thread Axel Hecht
aq76o%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics * Atom/XML feed: https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/mozilla.com_p51ksu9ddgqt72f0jl21vaq76o%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic Isn't the meeting at 11am? Calendar says 10. Axel ___ dev-platform ma

Re: Deprecating localstore.rdf

2014-08-05 Thread Axel Hecht
using localstore? --BDS How much of XUL templates with RDF do we support still? Never kept track of templates to start with :-/ Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: .properties and a single \u

2014-07-17 Thread Axel Hecht
in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1040019. Axel On 7/11/14 4:26 PM, Axel Hecht wrote: Hi, in .properties foo = some \unicode bar = some \a creates the most icky output. I'd like to get a defined behavior, but it turns out to be hard. Java: - dies with a parsing error o

.properties and a single \u

2014-07-11 Thread Axel Hecht
uot;some a" I dislike both java and compare-locales, and I think that both gaia and xpcom don't work great. What's your take? Axel cross-posting to .platform for xpcom, .tools.l10n for gaia's l10n.js ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Where is the document for jar.mn file format

2014-07-02 Thread Axel Hecht
fests.html is the place to look. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Spring cleaning: Reducing Number & Footprint of HG Repos

2014-03-27 Thread Axel Hecht
e web, and the github editor isn't it. It'll be web-based IDEs, which require good tooling and hosting to be on the same infrastructure. Axel *Non-User Repos* There are too many non-user repos. I'm not convinced we should host ash, oak, other project branches internally. I thi

Re: How to efficiently walk the DOM tree and its strings

2014-03-03 Thread Axel Hecht
order. Something like You would think the funkyness would rule. could translate into Rulingfunkyness, you would think. Are you intending to also localize tooltips and the like? Axel On 3/3/14, 8:28 PM, Felipe G wrote: Hi everyone, I'm working on a feature to offer webpage translati

Re: Changing how build automation interacts with the tree

2014-03-02 Thread Axel Hecht
tween John and me was "if there's anything odd, file a bug on releng to dig in". That's as much as I can get out of my brain into writing, I wish I had an hour-long video to go back and forth about stuff ;-) Axel On 2/28/14, 9:48 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: (This is likely

Re: Including Adobe CMaps

2014-02-27 Thread Axel Hecht
ms to know if we could do something like - seek to position N in bundle - set state to X, if applicable - uncompress, skip M bytes -- you get your file contents, L bytes long Or so. Yes, it'd be a new file format, I guess, at least as far as I can tell? Maybe it's worth it. Axel

Re: Faking a locale move

2014-01-24 Thread Axel Hecht
he chunks like relativesrcdir dom/locales: locale/@AB_CD@/browser/overrides/charsetTitles.properties (%chrome/charsetTitles.properties) We're using that to steal overrides, but that part is really just packaging. Axel PS: for others, "not allowed" in this case means &qu

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendations: RDF 1.1

2014-01-14 Thread Axel Hecht
lication and addons system. Axel On 1/14/14 11:04 PM, L. David Baron wrote: There are eight W3C Proposed Recommendations for RDF 1.1 (two of which are actually Proposed Edited Recommendations): RDF Schema 1.1: W3C Proposed Edited Recommendation 09 January 2014 http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema

Re: A proposal to reduce the number of styles in Mozilla code

2014-01-06 Thread Axel Hecht
een various changes where tools reformat code they don't understand, and break it. Trailing whitespace is significant in some of our file formats, for example. Axel On 1/6/14 6:55 PM, Martin Thomson wrote: I think that this is a good start, but it doesn’t go quite far enough. Part of

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendations: Performance Timeline, User Timing, JSON-LD

2013-11-27 Thread Axel Kratel
I'll take a closer look at it. Will be interesting to see how this fits in with what we're planning, but so far, we didn't plan on taking it into account. - Original Message - From: "Rob Campbell" To: "Till Schneidereit" Cc: "Boris

Re: Platform-specific nsICollation implementations

2013-11-25 Thread Axel Hecht
d ICU yet on many of our platforms, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=912371 being the biggest blocker on the way there, I guess (cross-compiling brokken) Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozill

Re: Is there any reason not to shut down bonsai?

2013-11-21 Thread Axel Hecht
is complex, as it basically moved twice, from http://bonsai-l10n.mozilla.org/rview.cgi?dir=mozilla/browser/locales&cvsroot=/l10n&module=default to http://bonsai-l10n.mozilla.org/rview.cgi?dir=l10n&cvsroot=/l10n&module=default and

Re: Add-on File Registration PRD

2013-11-04 Thread Axel Hecht
for malware installed by .exe installers on windows, at least. Or at least be open to social engineering as much as dismissing a non-registered add-on UI. Axel On 10/30/13 10:55 PM, Jorge Villalobos wrote: Cross posting to dev.planning, where I originally intended this to be. Please follow up

Re: Add-on File Registration PRD

2013-11-04 Thread Axel Hecht
ey're pulled from ftp by a admin tool in amo before the release. But yes, I'll actually need to read the original post with l10n in mind. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Cost of ICU data

2013-10-17 Thread Axel Hecht
On 10/17/13 3:41 PM, Brian Smith wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Axel Hecht wrote: We have issues with disk space, currently. We're already in the situation where all our keyboard data doesn't fit on quite a few of the devices out there. Where can one read more about this

Re: Cost of ICU data

2013-10-17 Thread Axel Hecht
On 10/17/13 2:41 PM, Dao wrote: On 16.10.2013 17:02, Axel Hecht wrote: We'll need to go down a path that works for Firefox OS. [...] But, yes, I think we'll need a hosted service to provide that data on demand in the end. This sounds like a non-starter for mobile devices,

Re: Cost of ICU data

2013-10-17 Thread Axel Hecht
On 10/16/13 5:39 PM, Jeff Walden wrote: On 10/16/2013 02:10 PM, Axel Hecht wrote: I wonder how far we can get by doing something along the lines we use for webfonts, starting to do the best we can with the data we already have, and improve once the perfect data is local. Having the Intl.Foo

Re: Cost of ICU data

2013-10-17 Thread Axel Hecht
On 10/17/13 12:02 PM, Gervase Markham wrote: On 16/10/13 16:02, Axel Hecht wrote: We'll need to go down a path that works for Firefox OS. With Firefox OS, we don't have the download-size issue, do we? So we can ship all the data. Gerv We have issues with disk space, curren

Re: Cost of ICU data

2013-10-16 Thread Axel Hecht
s of language content for 200 languages or somesuch. But, yes, I think we'll need a hosted service to provide that data on demand in the end. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Cost of ICU data

2013-10-16 Thread Axel Hecht
w far we can get by doing something along the lines we use for webfonts, starting to do the best we can with the data we already have, and improve once the perfect data is local. I'm personally OK if this is a notification bar to reload, even. Axel PS: ICU is driven by js globalization api.

Re: What platform features can we kill?

2013-10-11 Thread Axel Hecht
On 10/11/13 2:47 PM, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: I'd be happy if we could progressively kill FileUtils.jsm and make nsIFile [noscript]. Don't know if this qualifies as "platform feature", though. Cheers, David Both are heavily used in the js build system f

Re: What platform features can we kill?

2013-10-10 Thread Axel Hecht
On 10/10/13 2:43 PM, Jeff Walden wrote: On 10/10/2013 02:27 PM, Axel Hecht wrote: I agree with the sentiment, but not on the eample. Having been a peer of the XSLT module back in the days, we started with a rather js DOM like implementation, and moved over to a pure nsIContent etc impl, and

Re: What platform features can we kill?

2013-10-10 Thread Axel Hecht
n order of magnitude in perf. I don't think that XSLT is a good candidate for implementing it in JS. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: What platform features can we kill?

2013-10-09 Thread Axel Hecht
news "just" before it got rid of RDF, IIRC. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Poll: What do you need in MXR/DXR?

2013-10-02 Thread Axel Hecht
We'll use your input to build our priorities for Q4, so wish away! Cheers, Erik Could you add an l10n tree to dxr? I'd love to dogfood before I comment. Extra cookie if you're getting to gaia-l10n before mxr does, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795709 :-) Axel _

Re: No more Makefile.in boilerplate

2013-09-05 Thread Axel Hecht
On 9/5/13 1:17 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 12:24:11PM +0200, Axel Hecht wrote: Hi, out of curiousity, I recall that relativesrcdir was actually the trigger to switch on and off some l10n functionality in jar packaging. Is that now on everywhere? I didn't find any

Re: No more Makefile.in boilerplate

2013-09-05 Thread Axel Hecht
Hi, out of curiousity, I recall that relativesrcdir was actually the trigger to switch on and off some l10n functionality in jar packaging. Is that now on everywhere? Axel On 9/5/13 2:34 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: Hi, Assuming it sticks, bug 912293 made it unnecessary to start Makefile.in

Re: Getting the current release version

2013-08-30 Thread Axel Hecht
ta-release migration at release minus a week and a day, i.e., we're migrating on Sept 9, and release on Sept 17: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ake...@mozilla.com/Release%20Management.html?view=month&date=20130930 Axel ___ dev-platform mailin

Re: Getting the current UI locale from C++

2013-08-29 Thread Axel Hecht
On 8/29/13 3:17 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Axel Hecht wrote: I'll read up on the other thread, and I still think the approach is wrong here, sorry. You'll have to explain that more fully I think. This is the current approach. However the curren

Re: Getting the current UI locale from C++

2013-08-29 Thread Axel Hecht
hat I try to keep working at cost, notably on Android, where we're already doing stunts to do that. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Review of changes to Web compat-sensitive prefs in localizations

2013-08-28 Thread Axel Hecht
On 8/28/13 1:12 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 12:28:43 PM UTC, Axel Hecht wrote: That's rather orthogonal to what you're currently trying to do, but it's also indicating to me that we should remove all of those settings from intl.properties, and ju

Re: Feedback wanted on font checker

2013-08-13 Thread Axel Hecht
On 8/9/13 5:28 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote: On 9/8/13 15:36, Axel Hecht wrote:> So I created three test cases based on the data I see, Greek and > Bulgarian monospace and Hindi sans-serif. They're linked off of > http://pike.github.io/fonts/. It's prerendered images on the

Re: Feedback wanted on font checker

2013-08-13 Thread Axel Hecht
On 8/13/13 8:05 AM, Karl Tomlinson wrote: On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 13:51:45 +0200, Axel Hecht wrote: To clarify, the tool does support either .name. or .name-list. at this point. Is there a code path or a setup where we have for any language/family both a .name. and a .name-list. entry? I.e. pref

Re: Feedback wanted on font checker

2013-08-09 Thread Axel Hecht
On 8/9/13 1:51 PM, Axel Hecht wrote: On 8/9/13 1:27 PM, Karl Tomlinson wrote: Axel Hecht writes: On 8/8/13 10:45 PM, Karl Tomlinson wrote: Axel Hecht writes: On 8/8/13 5:17 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote: On 8/8/13 15:17, Axel Hecht wrote: Couter example seems to be Chinese, the unagi shows

Re: Feedback wanted on font checker

2013-08-09 Thread Axel Hecht
On 8/9/13 1:27 PM, Karl Tomlinson wrote: Axel Hecht writes: On 8/8/13 10:45 PM, Karl Tomlinson wrote: Axel Hecht writes: On 8/8/13 5:17 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote: On 8/8/13 15:17, Axel Hecht wrote: Couter example seems to be Chinese, the unagi shows something, while my tool reports 13k

Re: Feedback wanted on font checker

2013-08-08 Thread Axel Hecht
On 8/8/13 10:45 PM, Karl Tomlinson wrote: Axel Hecht writes: On 8/8/13 5:17 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote: On 8/8/13 15:17, Axel Hecht wrote: Couter example seems to be Chinese, the unagi shows something, while my tool reports 13k missing glyphs for zh-TW. If we're using Droid Sans Fallba

Re: Feedback wanted on font checker

2013-08-08 Thread Axel Hecht
Hi Jonathan, thanks for the feedback, more inline. On 8/8/13 5:17 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote: On 8/8/13 15:17, Axel Hecht wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a review of some rather hacky tool I just created to see if the fonts on b2g actually support a particular language. https://github.com/Pike

Feedback wanted on font checker

2013-08-08 Thread Axel Hecht
and stabbing in the dark, it'd be great if I could get some feedback and comments. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Rethinking separate Mercurial repositories

2013-07-30 Thread Axel Hecht
tant to do now? --BDS Also, the l10n automation infrastructure would need to be rewritten, and a healthy amount of the tooling we put on top. I'd expect the depth of the changes required in automations to be on par with switching to git wholesale, tbh. Axel _

Re: Three RDFa-related W3C Proposed (Edited) Recommendations

2013-07-17 Thread Axel Hecht
I've only quickly glanced at those, and I haven't followed those discussions at all, I have to admit. Are there any practical consequences for gecko/firefox? It doesn't look like it would, in particular when looking at the reference implementations being all on top of html pl

Re: review stop-energy (was 24hour review)

2013-07-11 Thread Axel Hecht
from time to time. I don't see how that's any different from a mail-filtering folder except in terms of the UI. They're both polling, as you note. :-) Jeff I wish I could watch more than one requestee in one page. I actually have a tab with a history of three bugzilla acco

Re: Replacing Gecko's URL parser

2013-07-10 Thread Axel Hecht
we still have in mailnews' abuse of RDF? Not sure what's lurking in localstore.rdf and mimeTypes.rdf. Also, sorry, can't offer more help than asking these days. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mo

Re: Replacing Gecko's URL parser

2013-07-10 Thread Axel Hecht
ec does not always return "str". Gavin nitpicking, that's not "not idempotent". It's not round-tripping, but it looks like it's idempotent. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Embracing git usage for Firefox/Gecko development?

2013-07-10 Thread Axel Hecht
nd from being complete. If it's the right base to create a pythonic api is TBD. Regarding bugzilla integration, there are perl bindings that get modifications. I refuse to know perl good enough to make any statement on the value of the perl bindings, though. Axel On 5/31/13 2:56 AM, Joh

Re: Embracing git usage for Firefox/Gecko development?

2013-07-10 Thread Axel Hecht
efs. I would think that 1000 files in the top level dir perform better than a 1000 files in 20 dirs depth. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

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