Perfherder Quarter of Contribution Summer 2016: Results

Following on the footsteps of Mike Ling’s amazing work on Perfherder in 2015 (he’s gone on to do a GSOC project), I got two amazing contributors to continue working on the project for a few weeks this summer as part of our quarter of contribution program: Shruti Jasoria and Roy Chiang.

Shruti started by adding a feature to the treeherder/perfherder backend (ability to enable or disable a new performance framework on a tentative basis), then went on to make all sorts of improvements to the Treeherder / Perfherder frontend, fixing bugs in the performance sheriffing frontend, updating code to use more modern standards (including a gigantic patch to enable a bunch of eslint rules and fix the corresponding problems).

Roy worked all over the codebase, starting with some simple frontend fixes to Treeherder, moving on to fix a large number of nits in Perfherder’s alerts view. My personal favorite is the fact that we now paginate the list of alerts inside this view, which makes navigation waaaaay back into history possible:

You can see a summary of their work at these links:

• Shruti Jasoria
• Roy Chiang

Thank you Shruti and Roy! You’ve helped to make sure Firefox (and Servo!) performance remains top-notch.