On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Johnny Stenback <[email protected]> wrote: > The Cycle Collector currently lives as part of the XPCOM module, but the > XPCOM module owners/peers are not the people who do the majority of the > work on the Cycle Collector. Also, the people who do the majority of > the work are *not* XPCOM owners/peers, which makes it unclear who should > review Cycle Collector code etc. > > I'm proposing we create a new module for the Cycle Collector, with the > details listed below. This module will be a bit different than most > whereas the cycle collector code currently sits in the midst of the rest > of the XPCOM code, not in its own directory (which is of course > something we can change down the road). Also, critical pieces of the > Cycle Collector lives outside of the core Cycle Collector code itself, > most notably in XPConnect, but also in various traverse/unlink functions > throughout many other modules. > > Name: Cycle Collector > Description: The XPCOM/JS cyclic reference collector > Owner: Andrew McCreight > Peers: Peter Van der Beken, Olli Pettay, David Baron > Source Dir(s): > http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/xpcom/base/nsCycleCollector.{cpp,h}, > http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/xpcom/glue/nsCycleCollect*, > http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/xpcom/, and other various > integration points and hooks. > Bugzilla Component(s): Core: Cycle Collector (needs to be created) > Discussion Group: #platform
This sounds good to me. I'd also add the dev-platform mailing list/newsgroup to the "Discussion Group". / Jonas _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
