Re: Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-10-03 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
A comparison point: I opened https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1264155 a while back about removing widget/uikit/ -- which is used by the old iOS port of Firefox -- and others disagreed so I let it slide. So there's precedent for little-used/unused widget code hanging around. (Whether or

Re: Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-10-03 Thread Gregory Szorc
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Gabriele Svelto wrote: > > Respectively, it seems like these requests were ultimately not included > > in the final decision. > > I would like to know why; I think that's not much to ask. I would also > like to know why this decision was made

Re: Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-10-03 Thread Gabriele Svelto
> Respectively, it seems like these requests were ultimately not included > in the final decision. I would like to know why; I think that's not much to ask. I would also like to know why this decision was made without any public discussion. As I've pointed out the removal of another widget was

Re: Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-10-03 Thread Justin Dolske
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 3:31 AM, Gabriele Svelto wrote: > > Since gonk is a widget on its own, during the internal discussions about > it I - and others who worked on B2G - repeatedly asked for the gonk > widget to be left in the code even after the removal of all the >

upcoming meeting announcement - intermittent orange hacking

2016-10-03 Thread jmaher
Every 2 weeks on Friday at 9 PDT [1] we will be hosting a meeting to discuss intermittent oranges. The format will be a chance for people with previous topics to relate status and findings, then the rest of the meeting discuss and surface ideas to consider investigating more. Our topics for

Fwd: [TCW] Scheduled Tree Closing Maintenance Window 2016-10-08 06:00a PDT 9 hours

2016-10-03 Thread Hal Wine
Our usual Tree Closing Window is Saturday, Oct 8. This time, there is some major work, so trees will be closed hard at the start at 0600 PT. We hope to be able to switch to "soft close" around 1100 PT. "Soft Close" means the trees are open, but there may be possible hickups, and it is up to devs

[Firefox Desktop] Issues found: September 26th to September 30th

2016-10-03 Thread Cornel Ionce
Hi everyone, Here's the list of new issues found and filed by the Desktop Release QA Team last week, *September 26 - September 30* (week 39). Additional details on the team's priorities last week, as well as the plans for the current week are available at:

Re: Want to learn TLS certificate verification best practices

2016-10-03 Thread Gervase Markham
Hi Ben, This question might be better off in mozilla.dev.tech.crypto. On 30/09/16 23:00, Ben Cottrell wrote: > I'm working on an (unfortunately closed-source) project that needs > to closely approximate the behavior of an actual web browser, in > the limited scope of making HTTPS connections and