<div dir="ltr">Thanks for spearheading this, Nick!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Chris Mills <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cmills@mozilla.com" target="_blank">cmills@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Nice work Nick - some really good content here.<br>
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I’ve spent a good chunk of today reading through and giving it a copy edit.<br>
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Chris Mills<br>
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> On 10 Sep 2015, at 02:14, Nicholas Nethercote <<a href="mailto:n.nethercote@gmail.com">n.nethercote@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Greetings,<br>
><br>
> The 2015 Platform Engineering roadmap [1]<br>
> (<a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Roadmap" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Roadmap</a>) mentioned "Candle", an initiative<br>
> that aims to reduce the power consumption of Firefox (desktop and Android) and<br>
> Firefox OS, that sits alongside other well-known initiatives like CrashKill,<br>
> CritSmash, and MemShrink. This is finally getting off the ground in a<br>
> significant way.<br>
><br>
> Details are on the wiki page [2]. Some highlights are as follows.<br>
><br>
> - There is a new mailing list, dev-power [3]. We will initially try using the<br>
> mailing list for all discussion and bug triage in preference to face-to-face<br>
> meetings. This avoids disadvantaging anyone due to their timezone and also<br>
> makes it easy to follow along in a low-commitment fashion.<br>
><br>
> - There is a new IRC channel, #power.<br>
><br>
> - There are several new MDN documentation pages relating to power profiling<br>
> [4].<br>
><br>
> We hope Project Candle will extend and co-ordinate the existing patchwork of<br>
> efforts relating to power consumption. Although it is originating in Platform<br>
> Engineering, like all other cross-cutting quality initiatives it will need<br>
> involvement from people all over Mozilla engineering to be successful. If you<br>
> are at all interested in power consumption, I encourage you to do one or more<br>
> of the following things.<br>
><br>
> - Easy (5 minutes or less):<br>
> - Read the wiki page [2].<br>
> - Join the mailing list [3].<br>
><br>
> - Medium (1 hour or less):<br>
> - Read the tools documentation on MDN [4]. (Feedback is welcome!)<br>
> - Read through the bug lists (linked from the wiki<br>
> page; currently the "Unprioritized" list is the only non-empty one).<br>
><br>
> - Harder:<br>
> - Work on a bug from one of the bug lists.<br>
> - Think about Q4 goals that might involve power consumption.<br>
><br>
> I will start the first bug triage thread on the mailing list early next week.<br>
><br>
> Please contact me if you have any questions or other feedback. Thank you.<br>
><br>
> Nick<br>
><br>
> [1] <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Roadmap" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Roadmap</a><br>
> [2] <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Project_Candle" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Project_Candle</a><br>
> [3] <a href="https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-power" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-power</a><br>
> [4] <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Performance" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Performance</a>,<br>
> under "Power profiling"<br>
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