halbersa

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   by halbersa 4y ago

   We have a pool of MacOS hardware to run tests, and another pool to perform signing. The latter is a security risk so very tightly controlled and locked down. They are a pita to maintain. Being able to sign on Linux will allow us to re-use t
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   by halbersa 6y ago

   One of the authors here, I can't exactly deny that line was added to sound impressive, so guilty as charged. However the savings are much higher than $20/day for a few reasons: * Many tasks run on expensive instances (hardware acc
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   by halbersa 6y ago

   One of the authors here, first off thanks! Yes a regression slipping through would far outweigh the benefits of reduced tests. The thing the post didn't make very clear is that thanks to our integration branch, the chance of a missed r
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   by halbersa 7y ago

   > Could you ever imagine Mozilla undermining the big players like that today? Enhanced tracking protection[1] was turned on by default for all users recently. This is a feature that hits at Google and Facebook's bottom line.. so I g