[chromium-dev] Major bug label changes coming

2009-12-17 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
We're going to reorganize the labels in the bug tracker to make it easier for release managers to accurately triage more focused areas. This is a follow up to adding the Feature- labels for tracking specific features. For most of you, this will have little impact. Some of the top-level Area-

[chromium-dev] 4.0 branch coming soon

2009-11-13 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
The feature freeze for 4.0 Stable is end of day today (Friday, 13 Nov). I've had a few questions about branching, either from people who want to delay committing crazy patches or people who want to make sure their feature lands before we branch. In a nutshell, we're going to branch Monday morning

Re: [chromium-dev] Re: Preventing Incremental Backup of History/Thumbnails

2009-11-10 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 08:14, mrossetti mrosse...@chromium.org wrote: I've updated http://crbug.com/25959 with some comments. The suggestion was made to exclude the entire profile directory as a short-term solution, but that would mean not backing up the bookmarks and cookies. So for the

[chromium-dev] Change to bug email sender

2009-10-26 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
We need to change the address used by the issue tracker from ' codesite-nore...@google.com' to 'chrom...@googlecode.com'. I'll be making this change immediately. Your mail filters might be affected. --Mark --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Chromium Developers mailing list:

[chromium-dev] Re: Building chromium stable

2009-10-11 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
We're now publishing the DEPS for release candidate builds. See http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/releases/3.0.195.27/ http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/releases/4.0.222.1/ The DEPS file should be good enough to build the release, though I found I had to manually set

[chromium-dev] Bug tracker: Cross-project bug linking

2009-10-01 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
You can use the form issue project:bugid in bug descriptions to autolink to bugs in other code.google.com projects like v8, skia, googleurl, etc. As of today, this form is supported for Duplicate and Blocked on. So, for example, I marked V8's http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=19 as a

[chromium-dev] Update default subversion properties on d.c.o?

2009-09-30 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/coding-style There's a section on Subversion properties that looks like it predates GYP. It says to set *.sln = svn:eol-style=native when I would expect it to be in global-ignores. Can someone with a good idea of what the defaults should be update this page?

[chromium-dev] Changes to security issue access and communication

2009-09-07 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
We're in the process of changing a few things about how security issues are handled. *1. Security bugs are restricted to members of the 'Security Team' by default.* We will limit access to security issues to a smaller set of people. This is consistent with how other projects (WebKit, Mozilla for

[chromium-dev] Re: How to keep aware of bug changes for a particular label

2009-08-18 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
Just so we don't waste Darin's time on administering code.google.com when he could be doing Yet Another Code Review... Please send requests for issue tracker changes --like getting automatically CC'd for a given label-- to jon@ and laforge@ (chromium.org). --Mark On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:36,

[chromium-dev] Re: Subversion tags for stable/beta/dev?

2009-08-11 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
Yes, I think we can add something so each channel has a persistent URL. I'll discuss with Aaron offline. On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 00:17, Darin Fisher da...@chromium.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Aaron Boodman a...@chromium.org wrote: Ok, sorry I got defensive. Short answer is we

[chromium-dev] Re: better commit descriptions WAS: Proposal for adding ChangeLog files to Chromium

2009-07-22 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 14:02, Peter Kasting pkast...@google.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Jeremy Orlow jor...@chromium.org wrote: Here comes the bike shedding Yes, Evan already concluded that was where we were. RELEASE_NOTES= I thought the conclusion was that people

[chromium-dev] Re: Generating files in source tree considered harmful

2009-07-22 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 20:27, Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote: Stop me if you've heard this one before. Today, a new directory was added to the source tree, and shortly thereafter was reverted. Should have been no problem, but... because the new directory contained a gyp file, a file was

[chromium-dev] Re: Generating files in source tree considered harmful

2009-07-22 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 21:26, Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:15 AM, Mark Larson (Google)m...@chromium.org wrote: Should have been no problem, but... because the new directory contained a gyp file, a file was generated in that directory, and svn couldn't delete

[chromium-dev] Re: Proposal for new changelist annotation: RELEASE_NOTE=....

2009-07-17 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:48, Aaron Boodman a...@chromium.org wrote: I propose we add a new tag to changelist descriptions: RELEASE_NOTE=description of something interesting that users would like to know happened in this build It would be up to the developer to decide whether something

[chromium-dev] Chromium-reviews is down

2009-06-25 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
The chromium-reviews emailing list has been blacklisted (for spam apparently). No review email is going out. We're working to get the list restored, but don't have an ETA at this point. In the meantime, you'll need to ping people directly to let them know about pending reviews and comments.

[chromium-dev] Re: apologies for build breakage

2009-06-25 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
We're working on adding more trybot capacity (3x for Mac). Additional Macs should come online in the next week or so, which will reduce the try latency. Right now, we're really underpowered. Yoda would be happy that there is no try. Developers, not so much. --Mark On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 18:39,

[chromium-dev] Re: unable to load generated resources

2009-06-24 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
See http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=15286 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=15286This seems to be a regression from (or a latent bug uncovered by) http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=revrevision=19183 Jungshik is looking into it. On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at

[chromium-dev] 2.0.172 update next month

2009-06-18 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
I plan to do a maintenance update to 172 on the Stable channel next month. If you know of bug fixes that should be included, please add the *Merge-Stable label* to the bug. I'll review fixes and pick up many as I can without adding too much risk. Thanks, Mark

[chromium-dev] Re: Is it possible to create branches?

2009-06-17 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
#1, make sure you have a bug open and a design document (exampleshttp://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents). Nothing's worse than going off on a long-lived feature expedition and then returning to trunk to find out people don't want the feature or want some other design. #2, work on

[chromium-dev] Help with linux build error

2009-06-17 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
This is happening on a new Google Chrome Linux builder on the 'experimental' waterfall: http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/waterfall.fyi/waterfall?branch=builder=Google+Chrome+XPbuilder=Google+Chrome+Linuxreload=60 The linux compile fails here: Linking

[chromium-dev] Re: Help with linux build error

2009-06-17 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Mark Larson (Google)m...@chromium.org wrote: This is happening on a new Google Chrome Linux builder on the 'experimental' waterfall: http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/waterfall.fyi/waterfall?branch=builder=Google+Chrome+XPbuilder=Google+Chrome+Linuxreload

[chromium-dev] Re: a brave new world for RTL languages (please comment)

2009-06-02 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
Yoav, I'm glad to hear you're interested in helping make Chromium better! The best way to get started is to get specific broken behaviors documented as bugs and then work on fixing the bugs. We already have a lot on file: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list?can=2q=label:RTL

[chromium-dev] Re: Auto Spelling Correction

2009-05-30 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 16:16, Evan Stade est...@chromium.org wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Mohamed Mansour m0.interact...@gmail.com wrote: Let me clarify. Try typing this: Hasn't the dog ate his food. hopefully we'll soon have grammar checking as well :) I hope the grammar

[chromium-dev] Re: Important: User visible UI changes must be discussed with the UI folk

2009-05-29 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
...these issues are filed as bugs so we can fix them, right? On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 22:23, Peter Kasting pkast...@chromium.org wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Evan Stade est...@chromium.org wrote: I'll also take this opportunity to complain that the dangerous downloads dialog

[chromium-dev] Re: Chromium 1 process per tab architecture

2009-05-27 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
See http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/multi-process-architecture and http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/process-models http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/process-modelsThese are on http://dev.chromium.org/ by clicking on For Developers and then

[chromium-dev] Re: Mac History Menu Implementation

2009-05-22 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
Just so it's clear to me... why do we need a History menu? There's a link to history from the wrench menu/Ctrl+H and also from the New Tab page. The back button provides at least 12 entries from the back history for the current tab. That seems more than adequate for the 'jump back a few steps in

[chromium-dev] Dev channel build schedule

2009-05-12 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
I'm working on documenting the normal schedule for release milestones and how we track that in the bug tracker. I still have some issues to work out around when a particular feature is ready and qualified for Beta and Stable channel releases. For the Dev channel, however, we have a

[chromium-dev] Re: Dev channel build schedule

2009-05-12 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 07:48, Marc-Antoine Ruel mar...@chromium.orgwrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Mark Larson (Google) m...@chromium.org wrote: The release manager for the week cuts a dev channel build Monday morning (Pacific) from the LKGR at that time. To be sure, uou

[chromium-dev] Re: Today we run zero LayoutTests in chrome

2009-04-29 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 14:05, Mike Belshe mbel...@google.com wrote: We're still using the test-shell to run the LayoutTests.I just fixed a bug, wrote a layout test, and then realized how dumb I was because the code I was testing was only in Chrome, and not in the test_shell. I think

[chromium-dev] 172 branch: V8 updated

2009-04-25 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
If you don't have a 172 branch checked out, you can stop reading. I updated the V8 dependency to use branches/1.1 instead of trunk. You need to delete src/v8 and gclient sync to get your working copy to switch to the branch. --Mark --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Chromium

[chromium-dev] Please use BUG and TEST in changelists

2009-04-23 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
All changelists should have TEST= BUG= if at all feasible. Why? TEST= will ensure that testers get the information they need to cover your change. What needs to be tested is not always obvious from the CL description. Sometimes a change in base/ can impact the installer or downloads. Help

[chromium-dev] Re: Please use BUG and TEST in changelists

2009-04-23 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
I totally agree. Keep using the spreadsheet as long as it helps the team make progress and the problem is basically engineer-to-engineer coordination. As I said, I trust your judgment. Once we start doing regular Mac and Linux releases, we'll want to use the bug tracker because a spreadsheet won't

[chromium-dev] Don't do work in a DCHECK

2009-04-22 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
(rafaelw, this isn't personal. It's just the most recent example.) src/chrome/browser/extensions/extension_tabs_module.cc contains this code at line 229: 229 int new_index; 230 DCHECK(args-GetInteger(Lindex, new_index)); 231 if (new_index 0) { 232DCHECK(false); 233return false; 234 }

[chromium-dev] code.google.com down/slow to respond

2009-04-10 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
The issue tracker at code.google.com/p/chromium may be inaccessible or slow to respond for the next few hours. Engineers are working on the issue now, so just be patient. It's a good chance to ignore bugs for a while :) --Mark --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Chromium

[chromium-dev] Re: code.google.com down/slow to respond

2009-04-10 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
And it's back already, faster than I expected. Pardon the spam. On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 18:31, Mark Larson (Google) m...@chromium.orgwrote: The issue tracker at code.google.com/p/chromium may be inaccessible or slow to respond for the next few hours. Engineers are working on the issue now, so

[chromium-dev] Re: gyp build on Linux

2009-04-02 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 09:10, Steven Knight s...@chromium.org wrote: Excellent idea re: qual script. What I'd like to do is turn these items into sanity-check tests for a buildbot slave that specifically tests and times issues about the build itself: build time stats, size of dependency

[chromium-dev] Re: SunSpider and V8 Benchmark Suite on Chromium Buildbot

2009-03-31 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
This is awesome. Thanks. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:21, Patrick Johnson patr...@chromium.org wrote: SunSpider and V8 Benchmark Suite performance is now tracked on the Chromium Buildbot. Graphs are available on the performance overview page at:

[chromium-dev] Re: Including Droid font in Chrome?

2009-03-24 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
I don't know how big these fonts are (download size) and I have a terrible sense of font quality. I do know that I want to reduce download size. I'd be all for making some or all of these fonts available, but not as the defaults. We could host them on our download servers and download them in the

[chromium-dev] Re: SVG tests and sanity

2009-03-13 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 15:01, Darin Fisher da...@chromium.org wrote: Are we only talking about regressions since 1.0? How many tests are we talking about? I agree we should set a baseline and not tolerate regressions from here forward. The latter question is the really important one to

[chromium-dev] Re: Profile Corruption, cause?

2009-03-05 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
Mohamed, I'm glad to see your interest in tackling this problem. Unfortunately, that data is collected under an agreement between the user and Google, so we cannot share the dumps. It's OK to share the stack traces, which have no personally identifying information, but I'm not sure we can even

[chromium-dev] Re: Thoughts regarding exposing --single-process, in-process-plugins in release builds

2009-03-02 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
Can we disable them for Google Chrome builds, and leave them on for Chromium? We don't currently have an archive of debug builds, but we do have that for Chromium release builds. --Mark On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 16:16, John Abd-El-Malek j...@chromium.org wrote: I was looking at the second top

[chromium-dev] Release branches

2009-01-19 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
To aid people who are debugging or porting fixes to various releases, I've created a release branch representing the current state of each channel: View: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/branches/ release-stable/ release-beta/ release-dev/ As chrome_official_branch is really just a

[chromium-dev] Re: Stabilization Effort Daily Report

2009-01-15 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:08, Jon j...@chromium.org wrote: *Report for 2009-1-14* With a single check-in from Finnur we got a huge boost toward our goal of resolving all the layout test failures! If you would like to try your hand at fixing a layout test you can preview the 10 minute video

[chromium-dev] Re: Is Chrome App-Mode discoverable?

2009-01-10 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 17:28, Brad b...@chromium.org wrote: We have an issue with a site wanting to remain in app mode. At the time being there is no method to open a new window in that mode from the page (no Window.Open) and they use a multi-document interface. The work around would be to

[chromium-dev] What WebKit goodies do we get in 155?

2009-01-05 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
I'm working on release notes for 155. The big addition in 155 (vs the 154 code we've been releasing) is the WebKit update. What have we gained since we started merging to WebKit's trunk? So far, I've got -- full page zoom -- autoscroll -- CSS gradients -- CSS canvas drawing -- (partly)

[chromium-dev] Re: Getting started, getting blocked...

2008-12-19 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 13:01, Jaff jaffe.m...@gmail.com wrote: Well, this is too strange. It would seem as if some other file-system mechanism is cacheing data. I created a new directory and attempted a fresh checkout, and it crashes/halts in exactly the same place. Complains about src/

[chromium-dev] Re: Trunk build's biggest annoyances?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 07:20, Marshall Greenblatt magreenbl...@gmail.comwrote: What is chromium's usage plan for /trunk? It seems that recent beta and release builds of chrome are coming off of /branches/chrome_official_branch -- is there a process in place to synchronize

[chromium-dev] Trunk build's biggest annoyances?

2008-12-15 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
Google employees: in case you're not paying attention, this thread is public on chromium-dev. I want to do a Dev channel release from the trunk soon. I know there are a lot of issues with the current trunk because it hasn't had the same test exposure or release pressure as the 154 branch. I

[chromium-dev] Re: My bugs view on code.google.com

2008-12-05 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
In light of the conversation earlier this week about Issues Assigned to Me on the issue tracker. There's a fix in, and it should go live next week (or so). --Mark -- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 14:05 Subject: Issue 1934 in support: Only

[chromium-dev] Re: Issues Assigned To Me show fixed bugs?

2008-12-04 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
I've filed an issue with code.google.com: http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=1934 Please star that to let the c.g.c team know how many people are interested in changing the default. --Mark On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 08:15, Finnur Thorarinsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: You have bugs

[chromium-dev] Re: Chromium auto-updating feature

2008-12-03 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
2008/12/3 Matías [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I've noticed that since yesterday, Chromium builds have a working checking for updates in the about window. I'm wondering how is this supposed to work, since It doesn't seems to correctly detect new builds. I'm currently updating Chromium builds with

[chromium-dev] Becoming a Committer

2008-12-02 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
We have posted guidelines for becoming a committer here: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/become-a-committer We have a number of active hackers making great contributions. We want to encourage more of that. Becoming a committer makes it easier to keep helping by giving you the power to

[chromium-dev] Re: Windows layout tests

2008-11-29 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:38, Dean McNamee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working on Linux layout tests. We're at about ~85% passing right now, but I know we still have a lot of problems. I've recently been running into places where I'm trying to fix problems, but the Windows layout test is

[chromium-dev] Re: Simple Browser / Rendering Engine

2008-11-22 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 14:54, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does test_shell use V8 or JavaScriptCore? By default, V8. On Nov 22, 1:29 pm, Peter Kasting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, I'd like to create a build

[chromium-dev] Code Yellow: WebKit merge

2008-10-01 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
We're about to land an update to our WebKit code that contains about 4 months worth of changes. This will make the tree unreleasable. We need to get the tree healthy again so that we can get back to releasing new stuff to users. Until we resolve all of the post-WebKit-merge issues, nothing's

[chromium-dev] Google Chrome Dev Channel: Early Access Releases

2008-09-16 Thread Mark Larson (Google)
send them directly to me (so I can compile the FAQ). Thanks, Mark Larson Google Chrome Program Manager --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Chromium-dev group. To post to this group, send email to chromium-dev