I don't see anything wrong with publishing design docs on webkit-dev.
Just don't proselytize :)

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On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Jeremy Orlow<jor...@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:07 AM, David Levin <le...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> It seems like if you are doing a significant change to an existing area or
>> adding a feature, it is good to explain the change that you're planning to
>> do (and hopefully get input from whoever had been working on that area
>> recently the most).  This explanation doesn't have to be
>> a "design doc" though.
>> For example from bug https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25463,
>>
>> "The comments in the bug seem to show a lack of consensus as to whether we
>> want
>> this feature and whether the API is appropriate. These design issues
>> should be
>> hashed out (perhaps on the mailing list) before submitting a patch for
>> code review."
>
> True.
>
> I guess WebKit guys have historically been pretty sensitive to us pushing
> our ways upon them.  Maybe we can continue circulating design docs for work
> in WebKit on this mailing list, but keep them on the down low on the WebKit
> mailing list?  Maybe post links in bugs, but only bring them up on the
> mailing list when there's specific issues to discuss?
>
> J
> >
>

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