Acronyms| CL | "Change List" | | GTTF | "Green Tree Task Force" | | LGTM | "Looks good to me", commonly used to approve a code review. | | LKGR | "Last known good revision", the last build that passed a minimal set of tests on the buildbots. | | PTAL | "Please take another look" | | SGTM | "Sounds good to me" | | ToT | "Tip of Tree", as in the latest revision. |
Building| buildbot | A column in the build waterfall, or the slave (machine) connected to that column, or the build waterfall infrastructure as a whole. | | slave | A machine connected to the buildbot master, running a sequence of build and test steps. | | tryserver | A machine that runs a subset of all tests on all platforms. | | sheriff | The person currently charged with watching over the build waterfall to make sure it stays green (not failing). There are usually two sheriffs at one time. The current sheriffs can be seen in the upper left corner of the waterfall page. | | tree | This means the source tree in subversion. Often used in the context of "the tree is closed" meaning commits are currently disallowed. | | clobber | To delete your build output directory. | | land | Landing a patch means to commit it. | | try | To try a patch means to submit it to the tryserver before committing. | | waterfall | The page showing the status of all the buildbots. |
General| Flakiness | Intermittent test failures (including crashes and hangs), often caused by a poorly written test. | | Jank/Jankiness | User-perceptible UI lag. |
User Interface| Bookmark bubble | A "modal" bubble that appears when the user adds a bookmark allowing them to edit properties or cancel the addition. | | Download bar | The bar that appears at the bottom of the browser during or after a file has been downloaded. | | Extensions bar | Similar to the download bar, appears at the bottom of the screen when the user has installed an extension. | | Infobar | The thing that drops down below asking if you want to save a password, did you mean to go to another URL, etc. | | NTB | New Tab button (the button in the tab strip for creating a new tab) | | NTP or NNTP | The New Tab Page, or the freshly rebuilt new tab functionality dubbed New New Tab Page. | | Status bubble | The transient bubble at the bottom left that appears when you hover over a url or a site is loading. |
Video| channels | The number of audio channels present. We use "mono" to refer to 1 channel, "stereo" to refer to 2 channels, and "multichannel" to refer to 3+ channels. | | clicking | Audio artifacts caused by bad/corrupted samples. | | corruption | Visible video decoding artifacts. Usually a result of decoder error or seeking without fully flushing decoder state. Looks similar to this. | | FFmpeg | The open source library Chromium uses for decoding audio and video files. | | sample | A single uncompressed audio unit. Changes depending on the format but is typically a signed 16-bit integer. | | sample bits | The number of bits per audio sample. Typical values are 8, 16, 24 or 32. | | sample rate | The number of audio samples per second. Typical values for compressed audio formats (AAC/MP3/Vorbis) are 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz. | | stuttering | Short video or audio pauses. Makes the playback look/sound jerky, and is often caused by insufficient data or processor. | | sync | Audio/video synchronization. |
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Hello,
Should this phrase be added to the Chromium Glossary on the Wiki:
"back in the dev channel" or simply "dev channel".
"back in the dev channel" referred to a feature which was removed in Chrome 5.0 but is now "back in the dev channel".
I'm assuming this means it is back in the development environment where it will be debugged, enhanced, etc, then re-released in the future.
Thanks,
Andy