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| [https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Prototype-ways-of-splitting-the-script-crate Full project description page] | | [https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Prototype-ways-of-splitting-the-script-crate Full project description page] | ||
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| web-platform-tests: Improve test manifest workflow and | | web-platform-tests: Improve test manifest workflow and performance | ||
| [https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/ web-platform-tests] is a project for writing a cross-browser | | [https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/ web-platform-tests] is a project for writing a cross-browser test suite, which is used across all major browser engines. The list of tests is stored in a JSON manifest file which is slow to generate and which we currently check in to the Firefox repo. These things create a poor developer experience. The goal of the project is to move to a system where the manifest is downloaded on demand for Firefox developers, and then to explore ways to speed up manifest generation such as employing parallelism or moving performance hotspots to Rust. | ||
| Candidates should be confident programming in Python. | | Candidates should be confident programming in Python. | ||
| [https://github.com/jgraham James Graham] (Mozilla) | | [https://github.com/jgraham James Graham] (Mozilla) | ||