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*;Blocker: A blocker is a bug where critical functionality is broken to the point that we cannot release the product. The release is therefore "Blocked". On Buzilla, with the Firefox OS project, a blocker is defined with blocking-b2g and the + sign as in blocking-b2g:2.2+ | *;Blocker: A blocker is a bug where critical functionality is broken to the point that we cannot release the product. The release is therefore "Blocked". On Buzilla, with the Firefox OS project, a blocker is defined with blocking-b2g and the + sign as in blocking-b2g:2.2+ | ||
;[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Sheriffing/TBPL TBPL]: A tool, called Tinderboxpushlog, that correlates checkins with Buildbot results so that developers and sheriffs can quickly see the results of automatic builds and tests for specific change sets. TBPL has been replaced by Treeherder. | ;[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Sheriffing/TBPL TBPL]: A tool, called Tinderboxpushlog, that correlates checkins with Buildbot results so that developers and sheriffs can quickly see the results of automatic builds and tests for specific change sets. TBPL has been replaced by Treeherder. | ||
;[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Gaia Gaia]: ''The user interface layer of the Firefox OS Platform. Any part of the user interface that is drawn on the screen is done | ;[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Gaia Gaia]: ''The user interface layer of the Firefox OS Platform. Any part of the user interface that is drawn on the screen is done through the Gaia. Gaia is implemented entirely in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It interfaces with the underlying operating system through open Web APIs, which are implemented through the Gecko layer.'' | ||
;[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Gecko Gecko]: The Firefox OS application runtime. This is the layer that provides all of the support for HTML, CSS and | ;[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Gecko Gecko]: The Firefox OS application runtime. This is the layer that provides all of the support for HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It makes sure that those APIs work on every OS that Gecko supports. Gecko many layers including, but not limited to, a networking stack, graphics stack, layout engine, a JavaScript virtual machine and porting layers. | ||
;[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Gonk Gonk]: ''Gonk is the lower level operating system of the Firefox OS platform. It consists of a Linux kernel (based on the [http://source.android.com/ Android Open Source Project]) and a userspace hardware abstraction layer (HAL). Basically, one could say that Gonk is a very simple Linux distribution. Gonk is a '''porting target''' of Gecko.'' | ;[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Gonk Gonk]: ''Gonk is the lower level operating system of the Firefox OS platform. It consists of a Linux kernel (based on the [http://source.android.com/ Android Open Source Project]) and a userspace hardware abstraction layer (HAL). Basically, one could say that Gonk is a very simple Linux distribution. Gonk is a '''porting target''' of Gecko.'' | ||
;[https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G B2G]: B2G is short for Boot To Gecko which is a project a complete, standalone operating system in build for the Web. It is built entirely using web technologies (HTML/CSS/JavaScript). | ;[https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G B2G]: B2G is short for Boot To Gecko which is a project a complete, standalone operating system in build for the Web. It is built entirely using web technologies (HTML/CSS/JavaScript). | ||