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* [[MDC:Mercurial/Desired_Features]] being contracted out
* [[MDC:Mercurial/Desired_Features]] being contracted out
** bsmedberg has the [http://hg.mozilla.org/users/bsmedberg_mozilla.com/hghooks/ server hooks] to collect push revision/time/user... should we ask IT to install this on mozilla-central now?
** bsmedberg has the [http://hg.mozilla.org/users/bsmedberg_mozilla.com/hghooks/ server hooks] to collect push revision/time/user... should we ask IT to install this on mozilla-central now?
** Are there features we could add to Mercurial to support sharing the core platform code amongst the various applications?
** Are there features we could add to Mercurial to allow people to work on SpiderMonkey with hg without checking out all the rest of the tree?
* Is it practical to remove the dependency of SpiderMonkey on NSPR?  If we had to lose some features — multi-threaded operation, say — this would still be helpful to some users (Taras, say).

Revision as of 17:36, 12 March 2008

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Mozilla 2 Meeting Details

  • Wednesdays - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 18:00 UTC
  • Mozilla Building S - <script> conference room
  • 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 217 (US/INTL)
  • 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 217 (US)
  • irc.mozilla.org #mmgc for backchannel

Status Reports

  • dmandelin: outparam analysis -- how difficult is this kind of analysis now, and how difficult will it be for 1) you 2) random people who want to author an analysis but don't know much about theorem provers
  • taras: treehydra progress
  • jimb: autoconf+spidermonkey — out-of-tree 'configure; make; make install' is working, although Taras has found some bugs. 'js-config' script generated and installed. Work is based on Mozilla Central now. Working through in-tree build bugs. Current status, code and instructions on wiki at Building only SpiderMonkey.
  • bsmedberg: beginning to upstream patches
  • jorendorff? still working on 1.9?

Discussion

  • automated tests for mozilla-central: unit tests bug 417332, leak+debug tests bug 422296, perftests (reporting to MozillaTest currently)
  • MDC:Mercurial/Desired_Features being contracted out
    • bsmedberg has the server hooks to collect push revision/time/user... should we ask IT to install this on mozilla-central now?
    • Are there features we could add to Mercurial to support sharing the core platform code amongst the various applications?
    • Are there features we could add to Mercurial to allow people to work on SpiderMonkey with hg without checking out all the rest of the tree?
  • Is it practical to remove the dependency of SpiderMonkey on NSPR? If we had to lose some features — multi-threaded operation, say — this would still be helpful to some users (Taras, say).