>On 9/17/2018 1:31 PM, Botond Ballo wrote: >> One potential issue here is that an assertion failure in Nightly >> builds might be simultaneously very annoying (because it crashes the >> browser of Nightly users every time it occurs) and not very actionable >> (because no reliable STR can be found for it). > >I would also be concerned about data loss and profile corruption when an >assertion crashes the browser. I don't think we'll have a very easy time >convincing people to do anything non-trivial with Nightly if there's a >pretty good chance that they completely lose the fruits of their labour. > >I'd hope that this wouldn't be too frequent a problem, but it probably >depends on the assertion, and the state of the durability of our user >profiles.
We already *need* to be stable in that case, given MOZ_RELEASE_ASSERT (and normal just-because crashes). And as best I can tell, we are stable (with regards to user profiles). Once upon a time we weren't (5(?) years ago?) -- Randell Jesup, Mozilla Corp remove "news" for personal email _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
