Meeting 2013 05 20

Agenda

• release engineering
• interns
• hiring

Attending

brson, pcwalton, jack, azita, tkuehn, eatkinson

release engineering

• jack: we have continuous integration on servo. bors has integrated two patches
• patrick: process is same for rust?
• jack: pull request gets made for servo, somebody reviews it, adds comments if the review is negative. if the review is positive they add 'r+' to the commit. then bors will go run the tests on the branch and merge it into the tree. it won't merge if any tests fail.
• jack: on rust this works great and you see on #rust that bors is constantly merging patches
• jack: we haven't had this on servo, lots of problems with the build process.
• jack: so now we have 'bors' on servo, running only linux, but os x should follow in a few days
• jack: the only thing missing from bors is we don't have access to the build logs or the pull request queue
• brson: no bors status page?
• jack: not yet, and we don't have access to the machines either
• jack: those are the three things we still have to do.
• patrick: it doesn't tell you what fails?
• jack: probably generates a link that goes nowhere
• brian: strange that firefox's logs aren't public
• jack: we'll get them, should have it working in a few days
• jack: it sounds like we'll have to talk to ben's bosses about scheduling the android build, windows builds, etc.
• jack: right now we don't have independent dependency management
• patrick: so bors does not manage the submodules
• jack: are you (interns) familiar with github?

interns

• jack: did you get to talk about projects at lunch?
• tim: a little
• patrick: briefly. is seth here?
• jack: nope
• patrick: erick has expressed interest in layout and there's a done to be done. should coordinate with seth since he's working on the same stuff. do you know the status of his border patches?
• jack: two things under warmup are 'support all units' and borders.
• patrick: units are done
• brson: I don't think so

- jack: easiest place is margins, padding, floats. - patrick: I know seth has changed some stuff here - brson: out of tree? - patrick: yes - brson: it's going to take erick some time to get up to speed - patrick: thinking tim could port servo to new scheduler. maybe not best first thing - brson: pick something smaller scope - jack: maybe a first thing to do is learn rust. if you're feeling adventurous work on brian's io branch - brson: it's all upstream for the moment - patrick: trying to think of things that need doing that are not - brson: the best intro problems will involve touching lots of servo while writing rust - patrick: are text transforms working? making text uppercase lowercase. might be fun - jack: friday we were talking about timing the compositor. adding timing in various places - patrick: better timing infrastructure, not a hard project but could be involved - patrick: another possibility is fixing regressions in real pages - brson: we don't have the test infrastructure - patrick: compare performance against gecko on display list building, etc. - jack: also useful when we want to build more performance infrastructure to know how gecko does it.