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Meeting 2014 06 09

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Agenda

  • SpiderMonkey upgrade? (Did I (ms2ger) add this?) I rebased it, but hit an ICE. pnkfelix is investigating.
  • Status of prebuilt rustc and moving off of releng (larsberg)

prebuilt rustc

  • larsberg: i've been working on getting prebuilt rustc for servo. travisci is building rust. We're running into a strange bug where we get an ICE from the prebuilt binaries, even though an in-tree compiler that should be identical works fine.
  • Bug: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/14385
  • manish: jack, I think you hit it before in the past (see the older bug: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/11083 ), so if you know anything about it, that would help.
  • jack: Yeah, I have no idea. jdm narrowed it down last time; he might have some insights when he gets back from PLDI.

Build system

  • jack: I started working build system changes. Since Nov/Dec we've been talking about CMake. I did some work on this during the work week. I got stuck in a few places. Now, I am writing a ninja-file generator in python (about 50 lines). It seems to work pretty well, though I need to extend it for a few more cases for the Servo build. Then we would be able to move Servo over to that. I will probably post that soon; I sent a copy to lars the other day. It's pretty simple. Between TravisCI and replacing make with something not-so-horrible, we might actually have a quite nice build experience for the first time in a while.

Servo logo

  • jack: I contacted an outside designer. First question was: what do we want? Problem: Tom Servo is intellectual property not owned by Mozilla, so we can't use it. Also, servomotors are boring-looking. Any other ideas?

  • czwarich: Change the name of Servo to something with a cool logo and work back from there!

  • jack: Cool logo-worthy-name onhand?

  • czwarich: Lazer. Blade. Cutting-edge names for cutting-edge browser!

  • mbrubeck: Don't go well with Rust! Would be nice if it went well aesthetically with the Rust logo.

  • larsberg: I did this: http://imgur.com/bIglNYW

  • czwarich: Make lars design it!

  • kmc: Servo logo should be the Rohloff Speedhub: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohloff_Speedhub#mediaviewer/File:Speed1c.png

  • mbrubeck: make ALL letters the rust logo!

  • jack: No other ideas with the logo, so I'll keep working on it... though gecko doesn't have a logo.

  • pcwalton: gecko does have a logo!

  • bjz: Should the logo fit in with Mozilla branding? We might want to differentiate Servo from the Rust project itself. It would be cool if it could fit in with Mozilla branding, typography and colors.

  • jack: Mozilla got rid of the dino, so it'd be a wordmark by default...

  • jack: I'll send images that you guys made and summarize the conversation we had to our designer. It's totally possible that we'll have to do iteration with a different designer.

  • kmc: Maybe a spider making a R like a web design of the rust logo?

  • bjz: The style guide might be interesting to look at: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/

Servo next workweek poll

  • jack: I believe Sept. 25 has the most votes. brson, did you check the Rust one?
  • brson: No.
  • jack: Sept 22nd, that is, has the most people able to attend. I will send an e-mail in the next couple of weeks with the date. We do not have any idea where it will be. There is an internal e-mail thread going on about workweeks again. We may be able to do it somewhere interesting again, if people enjoyed the week in portland.
  • kmc: I did! I even saw a guy riding a unicycle playing bagpipes and wearing a darth vader helmet
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