PSA: Searchfox now supports .mailmap entries

2018-11-09 Thread Kartikaya Gupta
Thanks to a patch by Nika, searchfox now respects the git .mailmap file in mozilla-central. When viewing old commits/blame info, the author information is updated using the .mailmap file to the new values. (Also, while I'm here, if anybody is interested in working on adding Python support to searc

Please enable build system telemetry

2018-11-09 Thread Ted Mielczarek
TL;DR: the next time you run `mach bootstrap` please answer yes to the prompt to enable build system telemetry. Hello, Those of us who work on the build system realize that building Firefox is not always a pleasant experience. We've done a lot of work over the years to try to improve that situ

Re: Please enable build system telemetry

2018-11-09 Thread Doug Thayer
Hooray for data! This is great. Thank you! On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 11:55 AM Ted Mielczarek wrote: > TL;DR: the next time you run `mach bootstrap` please answer yes to the > prompt to enable build system telemetry. > > Hello, > > Those of us who work on the build system realize that building Firef

Re: Please enable build system telemetry

2018-11-09 Thread Mike Conley
Yes, thanks! Out of curiosity, is there a dashboard somewhere where we can see aggregates of the current measurements? Thanks for your work, -Mike On Fri, Nov 9, 2018, 3:22 PM Doug Thayer Hooray for data! This is great. Thank you! > > On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 11:55 AM Ted Mielczarek wrote: > >

Re: Bypassing about:home/privacy page loads on new test profile builds via mach

2018-11-09 Thread Brian Grinstead
Thanks for the list, that looks like a nice set of defaults. I wanted to add a few related things: - In addition to setting prefs via machrc you can use `--setpref`. For example `./mach run --setpref browser.newtabpage.enabled=false` which would then override the value in your machrc file. Both

Re: Please enable build system telemetry

2018-11-09 Thread sheehan
> Out of curiosity, is there a dashboard somewhere where we can see > aggregates of the current measurements? I have WIP dashboard here https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org/dashboard/sheehan-build-telemetry-dash which I am using to play around with the data and look for bugs in our collection and