Media/WebRTC/libwebrtc Update Process/automation plan

This describes the rough plan to document and automate the process to "fast-forward" through webrtc.org libwebrtc change-sets to bring Firefox's libwebrtc version as close as possible to Chrome. This page will be updated as new information is discovered.

Plan Overview

• repo tasks

- update moz-libwebrtc fork to latest webrtc.org

- update elm to latest moz-central

• verify generation/build with extra, unused directories from stock moz-libwebrtc in place
• verify current vendoring scripts cmd-line params

- check moz-central a93c2d1df066 - Bug 1654112 - Vendor libwebrtc for rel86

- check moz-central d1df4970f4f0 - Bug 1654112 - Vendor libwebrtc/third_party for rel86

- check moz-central a93c2d1df066 - Bug 1654112 - Vendor libwebrtc/build for rel86

• remove dead/unused files in third_party/libwebrtc
• identify patch set to "undo" back to vendored moz-libwebrtc
• identify patch set to "undo" back to upstream revision (edd7f9e94d)
• Manually identify how to fast-forward one changeset

- move one changeset forward in webrtc.org history

- verify local build in moz-libwebrtc

- apply moz-libwebrtc-to-upstream patches, verify local build

- vendor moz-libwebrtc

- apply moz-central patches

- full try run

• write automation scripts "Manually identify how to fast-forward one changeset"

Findings

current third_party/libwebrtc directories and status

• Additional vendoring

build (with some changes during vendoring)
third_party

• Mozilla added

README.mozilla - generated during vendoring process
moz.build - generated by generate-gn-build-files.sh
webrtc_gn - generated by generate-gn-build-files.sh
X11 - imported later by Byron in c91f12b557a1 D113830
sdk/objc - imported later by Byron in 9314046d89eb D105015
tools/grit - imported later by Nico in 3cce5e6938f0 D114027

• Untouched from Bug 1665166 - Move media/webrtc/trunk/* to third-party/libwebrtc

README.md   (should have been vendored)
DEPS        (should have been vendored)
google_apis (is this referenced/used by current code?)
tools/clang (is this referenced/used by current code?)            
chromium_deps                   
dummy_file.txt                  
net                             
Makefile.old                    
peerconnection_client.target.mk 
peerconnection.Makefile

remove dead/unused files

• Successfully removed:

chromium_deps
dummy_file.txt
net
Makefile.old
peerconnection_client.target.mk
peerconnection.Makefile

- successful try builds

tools/clang

- successful try builds