C++/Rust usage, tools, and style module changes

Hi folks, Simon Giesecke is now a peer of the C++/Rust usage, tools, and style module, focusing on C++ coding style issues. I've updated the wiki accordingly. Cheers, -- Ehsan ___ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozi

Re: Proposed updates to the Static Analysis module

I've made these changes. Please join me in congratulating Andi! On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 12:37 PM Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Over the past few years, Andi-Bogdan Postelnicu has played a big role in > driving the majority of the work to keep our static analysis p

Proposed updates to the Static Analysis module

Hi everyone, Over the past few years, Andi-Bogdan Postelnicu has played a big role in driving the majority of the work to keep our static analysis pipeline updated and has made major improvements to it, including extending our hand-written C++ checks, introducing clang-analyzer, clang-tidy and cov

Re: New module: Anti-tracking

Thanks Andrea, sounds great to me! Just to be clear, this module governs the code aspects of anti-tracking features in Firefox. Anti-tracking features also have a policy side for example when it comes to issues such as which features we want to implement and ship in Firefox at which times, and th

Andi-Bogdan Postelnicu is now a peer for "Static analysis & rewriting for C++"

Hi everyone, I've added Andi-Bogdan Postelnicu as a new peer for the Static analysis and rewriting for C++ module. Andi has been influential in the past few years in helping us add more static checks, allowing developers to run our static checks locally through mach, integrating our static checks

Re: Private Browsing instrumentation

ers, Ehsan > > El 14/09/18 a las 17:47, Ehsan Akhgari via governance escribió: > > Hi everyone, > > > > For those who don’t know me, I’m a Principal Engineer at Mozilla, and the > > module owner of Private Browsing in Firefox. I’m also responsible for > the &

Private Browsing instrumentation

Hi everyone, For those who don’t know me, I’m a Principal Engineer at Mozilla, and the module owner of Private Browsing in Firefox. I’m also responsible for the original design and implementation of the feature many years ago. Introduction = TL;DR: Historically, we have considered the

Re: Andrew Sutherland is now a Web Worker peer

Congrats, Andrew! On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 9:47 AM, Andrea Marchesini via governance < governance@lists.mozilla.org> wrote: > I've added Andrew Sutherland as new peer to the Web Worker module. > Andrew has a deep knowledge of Web Worker code and he is helping me a lot > with reviews and new featur

Re: Deleting the mozApps API & UI module

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 5:05 PM, Emma Humphries wrote: > Ehsan, Core::DOM: Apps has already been graveyard-ed in BMO. Any other > components that this change would effect? > No, I think that's it. Thanks for checking! Cheers, Ehsan > > -- Emma > > > On Tue, J

Deleting the mozApps API & UI module

Hi everyone, I would like to remove the "mozApps API & UI" module [1] on the grounds that the code for this module has been long removed from Firefox so this module no longer serves any real purpose. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. I'll proceed unless there are any obje

Re: React license and Mozilla/Firefox

On 08/22/2017 12:38 PM, zbraniecki--- via governance wrote: We're currently using React in multiple projects including Test Pilot extensions and DevTools. It came to light that React license purposefully may impact its users position. A strong voice has been raised by Raúl Kripalani - https:/

Re: Super-review - proposal to remove given lack of super-review-specific usage

On 07/28/2017 01:04 PM, L. David Baron via governance wrote: On Friday 2017-07-28 17:54 +0100, Gijs Kruitbosch via governance wrote: I therefore propose 2 things: 1) we remove the super-review flag from Core/Firefox/Toolkit, or perhaps everything except maybe NSS (on the assumption it is activel

Re: New module proposal: DOM File Handling

On 04/28/2017 11:48 AM, Andrea Marchesini via governance wrote: Hi all, I'd like to propose a new module: DOM File Handling. I think this is a good idea, but I suggest "DOM File" as the name. There is a "Firefox:: File Handling" bugzilla component already that deals with how Firefox handles ex

Re: Module ownership change for Web Workers

On 2017-04-13 2:44 PM, Eric Rahm via governance wrote: > Ben Turner has suggested that Andrea become the owner of the Web Workers > module and he will shift to emeritus owner status. Jonas Sicking has chosen > to move to peer emeritus as well. > > The module peers have conferred and agreed with th

Re: Module ownership change for IDB

On 2017-04-13 2:22 AM, Eric Rahm via governance wrote: > Hi all- > > Ben Turner has suggested that Jan Varga become the owner of the IDB module > and he will shift to emeritus owner status. > > Jan has accepted, please let me know if there are any concerns with this. > If not I will update the wi

Re: The future of commit access policy for core Firefox

On 2017-03-12 4:53 PM, smaug wrote: > On 03/12/2017 10:40 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: >> On 2017-03-11 9:23 AM, smaug via governance wrote: >>> On 03/11/2017 08:23 AM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: >>>> On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 2:23 PM, smaug via governance < >>

Re: The future of commit access policy for core Firefox

On 2017-03-11 9:23 AM, smaug via governance wrote: > On 03/11/2017 08:23 AM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 2:23 PM, smaug via governance < >> governance@lists.mozilla.org> wrote: >>> >>> I'd be ok to do a quick r+ if interdiff was working well. >> >> Depending on the relativ

Re: Module proposal: Gecko C++/Rust usage, tools, and style

us sub-parts of this module is owned by the respective peers who are expert in that area. Cheers, Ehsan On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 3:12 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > On 2016-04-27 3:29 AM, Nathan Froyd wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Henri Sivonen > wrote: > >> On W

Re: Editor module proposal

Thanks for picking up the torch! :-) On 2016-08-15 4:26 AM, Masayuki Nakano wrote: > Thank you very much, everyone! > > I now updated the wiki page as: > > Owner: Masayuki Nakano > Peer: Aryeh Gregor > > On 2016/08/03 12:01, Masayuki Nakano wrote: >> Hello, &g

Re: Module proposal: Gecko C++/Rust usage, tools, and style

On 2016-04-27 3:29 AM, Nathan Froyd wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 11:20 PM, Nathan Froyd wrote: >>> - formatting/naming style (The C++ bits of >>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Coding_Style >>> , essent

Re: Resigning my mozilla.org project roles

On 2016-01-27 2:45 PM, Jeff Walden wrote: On 01/26/2016 10:15 PM, Douglas Turner wrote: Brendan is still the owner of the m-c top level: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/All#mozilla-toplevel Maybe this is really just a build / release function. I think this was primarily to approve new to

Re: New module owner for Content Security

Sounds great! On 2015-11-20 7:12 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: Sounds good to me! / Jonas On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Johnny Stenback wrote: +1, also, hi Sid! :) - jst On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 1:43 PM, wrote: Hi Governance people, Recently I've not been as active in the content securit

Re: New Module Proposal: Remote New Tab Page

On 2015-10-28 4:26 PM, Olivier Yiptong wrote: The non-Firefox part of this module proposal lives outside of Firefox and would be updated out-of-band from Firefox. The location of the source code is not the important issue, IMO. So far at least the Firefox module has covered all user-facing a

Re: New Module Proposal: Remote New Tab Page

Doesn't this fall under the Firefox module? Firefox module stopped having submodules a long time ago. On 2015-10-28 10:58 AM, Olivier Yiptong wrote: Hi everyone, I'd like to propose a new module: the Remote NewTab Page. We're building a remotely hosted piece of Firefox real estate. This is b

Re: Stepping down as the module owner of editor/

On 2015-10-22 4:53 AM, Jörg Knobloch wrote: On 22/10/2015 02:49, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: I think it's time for me to step down as the owner of editor/. Sad to hear and thank you for your work. Is there a list of unowned modules? Recently I heard that the serializer code is also practi

Stepping down as the module owner of editor/

As some of you may know, nobody has been actively working on the editor module for about 3 years now. I started working on this module about 6 years ago and as the newest and only person working on it, I started to own the Core::Editor module. I've tried to make occasional fixes and review patche

Re: New module proposal: Static Analysis & Rewriting

2 weeks without any objections. I went ahead and created the module! On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > On 2015-09-29 2:29 PM, Andrew McCreight wrote: > >> This sounds good! It sounds like Javascript rewriting and analysis is >> specifically excluded, may

Re: New module proposal: Static Analysis & Rewriting

t one already. Agreed. Documenting the existing stuff and converging towards a common base is on the list of my goals. On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: I would like to propose the creation of a new module that is focused on performing compile time checks and analyses on our

New module proposal: Static Analysis & Rewriting

nt of this area with the awesome peers we have on the CC list. Here is the details for the module: Name: Static analysis & rewriting Description: Tools for checking C++ code looking for problems at compile time, plus tools for automated rewriting of C++ code. Owner: Ehsan Akhgari Peer(s): Ste

Re: New Module Proposal: b2gdroid

On 2015-09-02 9:04 PM, Fabrice Desré wrote: Kats pointed me to https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Platform/ Platform-specific_build_defines so I updated it with the relevant information. Thank you! ___ governance mailing list governance@lists.m

Re: New Module Proposal: b2gdroid

Is there any documentation on what b2gdroid is today and what it's aiming to become, specifically addressing what Gecko developers who don't work on b2g should and should not be concerned with in relation to b2gdroid? Ideally this documentation would cover what build flags are on and off in b2

Re: Module resurrection: Private Browsing

On 2015-07-23 6:03 AM, Panos Astithas wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Ehsan Akhgari mailto:ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 2015-07-20 3:04 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:I think it's also great that your page mention research that has been done about user expe

Re: Module resurrection: Private Browsing

On 2015-07-20 7:40 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: I think it'd be great to have a short and clear list of what the private browsing feature is. I think your wiki page is a great start to that. It's definitely is short enough that yo

Re: Module resurrection: Private Browsing

On 2015-07-20 3:04 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: I disagree that the feature as it is today is useless but I don't have data on the usage of the feature one way or another. But note that by default, when using private browsing, your search history won't show up in your Google history since the isolat

Re: Module resurrection: Private Browsing

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 8:05 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Ehsan Akhgari > wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 6:37 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > >> > >> Hi Ehsan, > >> > >> I'd really like to get some clarity in

Re: Module resurrection: Private Browsing

here there are misunderstanding about this, I would be glad to talk to people and see how I can help. Cheers, Ehsan > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 6:43 AM, Ehsan Akhgari > wrote: > > The Private Browsing module started its life under the Firefox module > > <https://wiki.mozill

Module resurrection: Private Browsing

ls for the resurrected module: Name: Private Browsing Description: Implementation of the Private Browsing mode, and the integration of other modules with Private Browsing APIs. Owner: Ehsan Akhgari Peer(s): Josh Matthews Source Dir(s): Implementation and consumers of Private Browsing APIs in nsIL

Re: New Module Proposal: Media

On 2015-06-01 9:54 PM, Chris Pearce wrote: I certainly don't have a deep knowledge of WebAudio or Recording, karlt/padenot would be the knowledgeable parties for WebAudio. I'd be fine with WebAudio being its own module with one of those two in owning. Web Audio is already a module

Re: Some people on Mozilla Reps have inappropriate City-State

On 2015-05-25 11:20 AM, Eric Rescorla wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Ehsan Akhgari mailto:ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 2015-05-25 10:49 AM, Eric Rescorla wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Ehsan Akhgari mailto:ehsan.akhg...@gma

Re: Some people on Mozilla Reps have inappropriate City-State

On 2015-05-25 10:49 AM, Eric Rescorla wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Ehsan Akhgari mailto:ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 2015-05-22 10:16 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Ehsan Akhgari mailto:ehsan.akhg...@gma

Re: Some people on Mozilla Reps have inappropriate City-State

On 2015-05-22 10:16 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Ehsan Akhgari mailto:ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 2015-05-22 9:14 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Ehsan Akhgari mailto:ehsan.akhg...@gma

Re: Some people on Mozilla Reps have inappropriate City-State

On 2015-05-22 9:14 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Ehsan Akhgari mailto:ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 2015-05-22 7:38 PM, Adam Roach wrote: On 5/22/15 17:59, Mike Connor wrote: Can you name an example that would actually be

Re: Some people on Mozilla Reps have inappropriate City-State

On 2015-05-22 7:38 PM, Adam Roach wrote: On 5/22/15 17:59, Mike Connor wrote: Can you name an example that would actually be widely controversial? Perhaps the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic -- I'd have to brush up on Moroccan politics to be sure. OK, so let's say that someone living in tha

Re: Logging All Public Project IRC Channels

On 2015-01-27 2:11 PM, Mike Hoye wrote: On 2015-01-27 1:51 PM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Mike Hoye wrote: I'd intended this request to be only for product- and project-related channels, and even then to be opt-in. Blanket opt-out enrollment in anything doesn't r

Re: Logging All Public Project IRC Channels

On 2015-01-23 3:43 PM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: Hello All, What does everyone think about logging irc channels for both transparency and accountability but also to ensure compliance with our participation guidelines? I know some channels have decided to public log on their own starting this year

Re: Mozilla's privacy choices for the "others"

On 2015-01-15 12:04 AM, Robert Strong wrote: Thanks for looking at whether cookies are still being set Mook! I didn't bother to look since I had asked for that to be removed several times several years ago, I was told it wasn't needed since other data collection mechanisms were in place (at the t

Re: Mozilla's privacy choices for the "others"

On 2015-01-14 6:29 AM, Gijs Kruitbosch wrote: Ehm, I'm pretty sure we will check for updates on release by default. Less sure about FHR and crashreporter, but I was under the impression both were opt-out. FHR is opt out:

Re: Planet refresh and proposed policy changes.

On 2015-01-07 9:35 AM, Gervase Markham wrote: On 01/01/15 17:03, Majken Connor wrote: Whichever version of God does or doesn't exist doesn't affect Mozilla as an organization. Unfortunately, that's not something everyone agrees on either. :-( So I hope you can understand how people who don't s

Re: Fx Privacy Notice Addition (Tiles)

On 2014-08-29, 11:59 AM, Gervase Markham wrote: On 29/08/14 16:54, Majken Connor wrote: Your train of thought seems dangerously similar to "if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to be worried about" which is definitely NOT Mozilla's policy on privacy and so I think is irrelevant

Re: Fx Privacy Notice Addition (Tiles)

On 2014-08-27, 11:00 AM, Gervase Markham wrote: On 27/08/14 15:07, Trevor Saunders wrote: That *really* depends on the URL. For example it seems pretty reasonable to not want mozilla to know I've clicked on a tile going to http://www.amazon.com/Titan-17612-12-Piece-Precision-Screwdriver/dp/B000

Re: Fx Privacy Notice Addition (Tiles)

On 2014-08-26, 3:01 PM, Mike Hoye wrote: On 2014-08-26 2:34 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: On 2014-08-26, 1:31 PM, Mike Hoye wrote: I share your concerns, but I don't think we can avoid being subject to the discovery laws, however egregious, of any country we have an office in. Is that relat

Re: Fx Privacy Notice Addition (Tiles)

On 2014-08-26, 1:31 PM, Mike Hoye wrote: On 2014-08-26 1:10 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: Thanks for your email! I'm curious to know what jurisdiction this data is going to be stored in. If the answer is the US, what steps have we taken to ensure that this data will be safe from being access

Re: Fx Privacy Notice Addition (Tiles)

Hi Geoff, On 2014-08-22, 12:52 PM, gpi...@mozilla.com wrote: Hello all! I am very excited about our release of Tiles. Because we are adding our new Tiles feature to Firefox, we also need to add a notice to address the feature within our Firefox Browser Privacy Notice. By the way, the notice l

Re: Creating a volunteer agreement

On 2014-06-24, 3:50 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: I think the big problem that everyone here has with the "agreement" is that it's phrased as an agreement with all sorts of legal language, and yet it's not actually a binding legal con

Re: Evolving the Mozilla Project Meeting

On 2014-05-22, 9:32 AM, Till Schneidereit wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Larissa Shapiro wrote: Til, I’d missed this before, and hearing that you did watch and value this is good to know - makes me redact my previous statement. I’d love to see data about how many folks like you are ou

Re: Mozilla and DRM

On 2014-05-21, 11:41 PM, Jim wrote: On 2014-05-21 16:03, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: On 2014-05-21, 1:30 AM, Jim wrote: There are very real technical differences in the ability to sandbox a separate DRM player versus an integrated web based media player. I'm not sure there are. It is triv

Re: Mozilla and DRM

On 2014-05-21, 1:30 AM, Jim wrote: There are very real technical differences in the ability to sandbox a separate DRM player versus an integrated web based media player. I'm not sure there are. It is trivially obvious. It is much easier for people to sandbox a separate computing device, they

Re: Service to Maintain Module Peer/Owner Information and Audit Check-Ins

t paragraph. Also, given the second paragraph of my response, do you think we need anything more than a cleanup in the existing wiki and a simple parser to extract the data out of it once we ensure that things such as email addresses are properly formatted? Cheers, Ehsan On Feb 11, 2014,

Re: Service to Maintain Module Peer/Owner Information and Audit Check-Ins

On 2/11/2014, 12:42 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: On 2/11/14, 9:01 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: On 2/11/2014, 5:27 AM, Reuben Morais wrote: On Feb 11, 2014, at 4:51, Byron Jones wrote: Kyle Huey wrote: We could copy the Chromium OWNERS file thing. that wouldn't work for modules which are not

Re: Service to Maintain Module Peer/Owner Information and Audit Check-Ins

On 2/11/2014, 5:27 AM, Reuben Morais wrote: On Feb 11, 2014, at 4:51, Byron Jones wrote: Kyle Huey wrote: We could copy the Chromium OWNERS file thing. that wouldn't work for modules which are not code (such as tree sherifs, governance/policy, reps, ...). What does "check-in auditing" mea

Re: Subthread in The news about 'Mozilla China ...

On 1/7/2014, 2:02 PM, Bob Clary wrote: On 01/07/2014 10:04 AM, Mike Connor wrote: On the other hand, we have to make sure we’re being pragmatic about our goals. Many have argued that things like quirks mode, document.all detection and other compatibility hacks were against web standards, but

Re: Subthread in The news about 'Mozilla China ...

it wouldn't have to be offensive or disrespectful in any way shape or form (and of course it would be incredibly adorable and aww-inducing!) to be inappropriate. Yes, point taken. Thanks! Ehsan On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Ehsan Akhgari mailto:ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Re: Subthread in The news about 'Mozilla China ...

ecause Ehsan seems to want me there or can't see that I'm not going there. - A On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Asa Dotzler mailto:a...@mozilla.com>> wrote: On 12/19/13, 7:38 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: On 12/18/2013, 11:49 PM, Asa Dotzler wr

Re: The news about 'Mozilla China ...

On 12/19/2013, 12:07 PM, Asa Dotzler wrote: On 12/19/13, 7:38 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: On 12/18/2013, 11:49 PM, Asa Dotzler wrote: On 12/18/13, 8:35 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: On 12/18/2013, 5:03 PM, Asa Dotzler wrote: On 12/17/13, 8:30 PM, Chris Peterson wrote: > Instead Mozilla sho

Re: The news about 'Mozilla China ...

On 12/18/2013, 11:49 PM, Asa Dotzler wrote: On 12/18/13, 8:35 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: On 12/18/2013, 5:03 PM, Asa Dotzler wrote: On 12/17/13, 8:30 PM, Chris Peterson wrote: > Instead Mozilla should shine light on these companies' unscrupulous > behavior and win users with respect

Re: The news about 'Mozilla China ...

On 12/18/2013, 5:03 PM, Asa Dotzler wrote: On 12/17/13, 8:30 PM, Chris Peterson wrote: > Instead Mozilla should shine light on these companies' unscrupulous > behavior and win users with respectful privacy solutions. I think this could be an Western biased view. Why do you believe that Chines

Re: New owner for the Cookies module

No good deed goes unpunished, indeed! ;-) Congrats, Monica! -- Ehsan On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Jason Duell wrote: > Brendan and Dan Witte (the existing-->former module owner) have agreed to > make Monica Chew the new module owner for the "Cookies and Permiss

Re: New module proposal: Web Audio

I went ahead and created this module: < https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/Core#Web_Audio> Cheers, -- Ehsan <http://ehsanakhgari.org/> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > On 2013-05-09 4:16 PM, Justin Dolske wrote: > >> On 5/9/13 11:29 AM, Ehsan Akh

Re: New module proposal: Web Audio

On 2013-05-09 4:16 PM, Justin Dolske wrote: On 5/9/13 11:29 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: We've been working on implementing the Web Audio specification in Gecko, and I'd like to make the existing de facto ownership and peer status official in terms of a new module. Name: Core::Web Aud

New module proposal: Web Audio

We've been working on implementing the Web Audio specification in Gecko, and I'd like to make the existing de facto ownership and peer status official in terms of a new module. Name: Core::Web Audio Description: Support for the W3C Web Audio API specification. Module owner: Ehsan Akh