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Dec 14

what’s new in xpcom

I was talking to somebody at Mozilla’s recent all-hands meeting in Portland, and in the course of attempting to provide a reasonable answer for “What have you been doing lately?”, I said that I had been doing a lot of reviews, mostly because of my newfound duties as XPCOM module owner. My conversational partner responded with some surprise that people were still modifying code in XPCOM at such a clip that reviews would be a burden. I responded that while the code was not rapidly changing, people were still finding reasons to do significant modifications to XPCOM code, and I mentioned a few recent examples.

But in light of that conversation, it’s good to broadcast some of the work I’ve had the privilege of reviewing this year.  I apologize in advance for not citing everybody; in particular, my reviews email folder only goes back to August, so I have a very incomplete record of what I’ve reviewed in the past year.  In no particular order: