Current status
I’ve been reminded that I’ve not been poor at updating the blog. Mea culpa. Anyway, some recent fixes of note: Bug 686203 – Focused contenteditable can prevent other elements from getting focused on...
View ArticleTrust in Mozilla
I’m still working on something to assist those merging to mozilla-central. I’m almost ready to start talking to Bugzilla. Obviously, one can’t test on b.m.o, so off to the test server – Landfill – we...
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Introducing m-cMerge
In the summer of 2011, the integration branch mozilla-inbound was created, to allow Mozilla contributors to land patches without having to wait multiple hours afterwards waiting for your builds to...
View ArticlePushlog URLs now printed when pushing to mozilla-central
When pushing to mozilla-central or mozilla-inbound, one of the first things you are likely to do post-push is copy and paste the changeset URL into the relevant bug. To help, I fixed bug 663585, which...
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Handling large backouts with m-cMerge
m-cMerge has been updated regularly since it was unveiled. One recent update added the ability to handle pushes from trees other than mozilla-central. There are plenty of times where large patch series...
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m-cMerge and status flags
For a while, m-cMerge has been blundering along, ignorant of the various flags our hard-working release drivers use to track fixes across the various trains. It wasn’t alone – a recent thread on...
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More m-cMerge updates
A couple more m-cMerge improvements have now landed. Bug Assignees m-cMerge will now attempt to set the bug assignee in certain circumstances. Specifically, the following must hold: The current...
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Google Search in New Tab Page
When using Firefox, I realised I am forever performing the sequence Ctrl-T followed by Ctrl-K to start a Google search in a new tab. However, I find the standard new tab page useful, so I didn’t...
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Open Badges for contributions to specific Firefox releases
Although I’m primarily interested in Firefox development, Mozilla is more than just Firefox and Firefox OS. There’s a crazy amount of stuff happening! One interesting project is Open Badges. I’m...
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5 years
December 10th 2007. Bug 399612, comment 1. Graeme McCutcheon appeared in bugzilla.mozilla.org with a modest bit of triage. And so it began. In truth, it began before that. It began in 2004 with a new...
View ArticleOn funkierJS... and other, more serious matters
Note: this is a temporary static site. The full site will be restored once I get some domain hosting issued resolved. I occasionally flirt with functional programming. Well to tell you the truth, its...
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