For the TL;DR: I am for having a single team/owner responsible for Chromium/Blink in Crosswalk. I'm not sold on the notion of having the original owner of a feature have to continually re-visit "completed" work in order to keep that feature in a newer version of Crosswalk.
Long winded answer: In general I am for attempt to improve our methodology, and this takes us a step in the right direction. Having not been in the trenches dealing with the day-to-day impact of the current methodology, I defer to those that have. I *really* like the idea of having a single, unchanging, person/team that owns Chromium. However, this proposal diverges from the BKM illustrated by most open source projects. From the community vantage point (3rd parties, other business groups, etc.) landing something in upstream (to them) means landing it in Crosswalk. In the Linux kernel world (and other open source projects) once a feature has landed in upstream, rebasing is done by the upstream community. In our approach, we are saying landing it in Crosswalk means you are going to own that feature forever, and if you don't, it may be deleted. I would set the expectation that we may start with a single full time resource allocated to owning Chromium, however we may expand that to a forward-porting sub-team long term. I would rather see experts in re-basing and forward porting doing that job than "peanut buttering" that skillset across the entire team. James On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Oliveira, Caio <caio.olive...@intel.com> wrote: > Hello, > > > > Me, Alexis and Raphael (with feedback from Gustavo and Jesus) wrote down a > proposal to change how we handle the Chromium and Blink repositories for > Crosswalk. In summary: > > > > Developers of changes to our branches of Chromium and Blink will have to > make new PRs for every Chromium update. > One person will be responsible for the branches, will take care of the > updates and make final calls about any PR for those branches. > > All the details and rationale are in > https://docs.google.com/a/intel.com/document/d/1rfYTJjMpuGVxIFFwj_g72V2mdkgcrOIm6D8e275tdLw/edit?usp=sharing > (the comments are disabled, please give feedback in this thread). > > > > What do you think? > > > > > > Cheers, > > Caio > > > _______________________________________________ > Crosswalk-dev mailing list > Crosswalk-dev@lists.crosswalk-project.org > https://lists.crosswalk-project.org/mailman/listinfo/crosswalk-dev > _______________________________________________ Crosswalk-dev mailing list Crosswalk-dev@lists.crosswalk-project.org https://lists.crosswalk-project.org/mailman/listinfo/crosswalk-dev
