Re: Maintaining the en-US dictionary that ships with Mozilla products

2015-12-30 Thread Jörg Knobloch
On 30/12/2015 01:46, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: First things first, let's correct something here. We do _not_ maintain three word lists. We maintain one list: the list of words that the Firefox spellchecker accepts. I know I sound like a broken record: I suggested to change the process and maintain

Thanks for all the great teamwork with the Sheriffs in 2015!

2015-12-30 Thread Carsten Book
Hi, Sheriffing is not just about Checkins, Uplifts and Backouts - its also a lot of teamwork with different Groups and our Community like Developers, IT Teams and Release Engineering and a lot more to keep the trees up and running. And without this great teamwork our job would be nearly impossible

Re: Thanks for all the great teamwork with the Sheriffs in 2015!

2015-12-30 Thread Kartikaya Gupta
Yes, thank you to all the sheriffs for all their hard work! On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Carsten Book wrote: > Hi, > > Sheriffing is not just about Checkins, Uplifts and Backouts - its also a > lot of teamwork with different Groups and our Community like Developers, IT > Teams and Release Eng

Re: Thanks for all the great teamwork with the Sheriffs in 2015!

2015-12-30 Thread Lawrence Mandel
hear, hear! Thank you. Lawrence On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Kartikaya Gupta wrote: > Yes, thank you to all the sheriffs for all their hard work! > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Carsten Book wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Sheriffing is not just about Checkins, Uplifts and Backouts - its also

Re: Thanks for all the great teamwork with the Sheriffs in 2015!

2015-12-30 Thread Johnny Stenback
Indeed, well done all around, thank you to all the sheriffs and everyone who worked with the sheriffs, directly or indirectly, in 2015! Looking forward to a great 2016! - jst On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Lawrence Mandel wrote: > hear, hear! Thank you. > > Lawrence > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 a

APZ on desktop: riding the trains on Gecko 46

2015-12-30 Thread Kartikaya Gupta
Just a heads up that APZ for desktop, which has been enabled in Nightly for a few releases now, will be riding the trains on Gecko 46. There are still a few open blockers hanging off bug 1178298 but we expect to have them fixed shortly. APZ being enabled is still conditional at runtime on e10s bei

Re: Maintaining the en-US dictionary that ships with Mozilla products

2015-12-30 Thread Jörg Knobloch
On 30/12/2015 10:20, Jörg Knobloch wrote: I can't understand how the current system could manage SCOWL removals yet not remove words Mozilla specifically added. How does it know that a word came from SCOWL and can be removed or it didn't come from SCOWL and should be maintained? Oops, I was wro

Re: Maintaining the en-US dictionary that ships with Mozilla products

2015-12-30 Thread Jim Mathies
On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at 2:38:43 PM UTC-6, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > On 2015-12-28 5:11 PM, Jim Mathies wrote: > > We could research using native spell checking apis if the platform supports > > them. For example Windows added spell checking apis in Windows 8. > > It's not obvious to me why

e10s status update (not going to GA in 45)

2015-12-30 Thread Brad Lassey
tl;dr: we no longer plan to ship e10s to our release population in Firefox 45 Several of us just met to go over the data we've collected on the our Beta 44 e10s experiment and how it relates to our release criteria. There are three main areas of concern. *Population.* Our plan has been to releas

Re: Thanks for all the great teamwork with the Sheriffs in 2015!

2015-12-30 Thread David Burns
Well done Sheriffs! Really proud of all the work you did this year! David On 30 December 2015 at 14:19, Carsten Book wrote: > Hi, > > Sheriffing is not just about Checkins, Uplifts and Backouts - its also a > lot of teamwork with different Groups and our Community like Developers, IT > Teams an

Re: Too many oranges!

2015-12-30 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2015-12-29 6:24 PM, Steve Fink wrote: That makes me think that we're not disagreeing very much. Still some, I think, but sure -- if assigning a handful of people to work on intermittent oranges makes the problem go away, then that seems like a reasonable thing to do. Though if you're taking ex

Re: Maintaining the en-US dictionary that ships with Mozilla products

2015-12-30 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2015-12-30 2:10 PM, Jim Mathies wrote: On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at 2:38:43 PM UTC-6, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: On 2015-12-28 5:11 PM, Jim Mathies wrote: We could research using native spell checking apis if the platform supports them. For example Windows added spell checking apis in Windows

Re: e10s status update (not going to GA in 45)

2015-12-30 Thread Chris Peterson
On 12/30/15 12:30 PM, Brad Lassey wrote: *Population.* Our plan has been to release e10s first to users who have no add-ons and no a11y features enabled due to known issues with those two areas of code. Our crash data from the 44 experiment indicates that we have both sets of users in the experim

Intent to implement & ship: support for a subset of -webkit prefixed CSS properties & features

2015-12-30 Thread Daniel Holbert
Summary: A good chunk of the web today (and particularly the mobile web) effectively relies on -webkit prefixed CSS properties & features. We wish we lived in a world where web content always included standards-based fallback (or at least multiple-vendor-prefixed fallback), but alas, we do not li