Project Candle: an initiative to reduce power consumption

[Chris Mills]

Nice work Nick - some really good content here. 

I’ve spent a good chunk of today reading through and giving it a copy edit.

Chris Mills
  Senior tech writer || Mozilla
developer.mozilla.org || MDN
  cmills at mozilla.com || @chrisdavidmills



> On 10 Sep 2015, at 02:14, Nicholas Nethercote <n.nethercote at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> The 2015 Platform Engineering roadmap [1]
> (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Roadmap) mentioned "Candle", an initiative
> that aims to reduce the power consumption of Firefox (desktop and Android) and
> Firefox OS, that sits alongside other well-known initiatives like CrashKill,
> CritSmash, and MemShrink. This is finally getting off the ground in a
> significant way.
> 
> Details are on the wiki page [2]. Some highlights are as follows.
> 
> - There is a new mailing list, dev-power [3]. We will initially try using the
>  mailing list for all discussion and bug triage in preference to face-to-face
>  meetings. This avoids disadvantaging anyone due to their timezone and also
>  makes it easy to follow along in a low-commitment fashion.
> 
> - There is a new IRC channel, #power.
> 
> - There are several new MDN documentation pages relating to power profiling
>  [4].
> 
> We hope Project Candle will extend and co-ordinate the existing patchwork of
> efforts relating to power consumption. Although it is originating in Platform
> Engineering, like all other cross-cutting quality initiatives it will need
> involvement from people all over Mozilla engineering to be successful. If you
> are at all interested in power consumption, I encourage you to do one or more
> of the following things.
> 
> - Easy (5 minutes or less):
>  - Read the wiki page [2].
>  - Join the mailing list [3].
> 
> - Medium (1 hour or less):
>  - Read the tools documentation on MDN [4]. (Feedback is welcome!)
>  - Read through the bug lists (linked from the wiki
>    page; currently the "Unprioritized" list is the only non-empty one).
> 
> - Harder:
>  - Work on a bug from one of the bug lists.
>  - Think about Q4 goals that might involve power consumption.
> 
> I will start the first bug triage thread on the mailing list early next week.
> 
> Please contact me if you have any questions or other feedback. Thank you.
> 
> Nick
> 
> [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Roadmap
> [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Project_Candle
> [3] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-power
> [4] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Performance,
> under "Power profiling"
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