My Sacrifice
I did something a bit crazy today. Insane might be a good adjective to describe me here as well. First, some background; I had already planned on working Thursday and Friday this week (for those of you not in the US, Thursday is a national holiday). I’m trading time off now for use next month when I’ll be in Michigan. It’s nice to have a manager who is flexible like that.
During today’s platform meeting, a great debate started about when we should branch for Firefox.Next. We had originally planned on branching roughly three weeks ago, but we are a bit behind schedule. It turns out this hurts our mobile efforts since the tree is essentially under lock-down, and has been since when we intended to branch. Folks on the call were arguing when would be a good time to branch, with suggestions ranging from now, to (I believe sarcastically) a month or two from now. Branching now means a lot of people have to land patches to bugs to both branches, and branching later means life is painful for mobile for even longer. It was clear to me that we weren’t getting anywhere with the argument and people were just digging into their positions, which is when I decided to do something a bit crazy. This quote from the backchannel chat sums it up nicely (thanks to whoever submitted it as I now have a record of my insanity). Essentially, I’m landing a bunch of patches to make a lot of other folks’ lives easier over the next few weeks or so. Here’s hoping I don’t keep taking steps to further my madness!
This does mean that I’ll be around online Thursday and Friday this week if you need to get a hold of me.
