Re: [webkit-dev] Remove the version labels in GitHub
> On Oct 22, 2022, at 12:11 PM, Caitlin Potter wrote: > > Would it make sense to, rather than referring to downstream browsers, have a > canonical WebKit version number that could be exposed in about:version or > something? A friendly semver-ish thing + short git hash could be a lot more > useful for doing things like bisecting. > > I think part of the reason the version numbers havent been useful is they are > very detached from the actual open source product, and don't necessarily help > with triage or reproduction, or hint at a cause. I personally am not looking to add something. I’d rather remove the thing we currently have that is not useful. I am definitely open to adding something later if we come up with something great. It’s not clear how easy it would be to improve things by adding more than the git hashes and the commit.webkit.org increasing numbers we already have. On Apple’s platforms there are already both Safari version numbers and WebKit version numbers and it’s not clear where an additional WebKit open source reference version number would go, and how to best express the effects of branching. — Darin ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
Re: [webkit-dev] Remove the version labels in GitHub
Would it make sense to, rather than referring to downstream browsers, have a canonical WebKit version number that could be exposed in about:version or something? A friendly semver-ish thing + short git hash could be a lot more useful for doing things like bisecting. I think part of the reason the version numbers havent been useful is they are very detached from the actual open source product, and don't necessarily help with triage or reproduction, or hint at a cause. > On Oct 22, 2022, at 10:31 AM, Darin Adler via webkit-dev > wrote: > > Hi folks. > > I understand it can be super critical to understand what version someone was > testing when reporting a WebKit bug. But I, at least, haven’t found the > version field at bugs.webkit.org useful in the 20+ years I have been working > on this project. > > Now we have that same noise in GitHub. All my pull requests have the label > WebKit Nightly Build on them when I use the “git webkit pr” command to create > them. And we have lots of labels with various version numbers, such as > “Safari 8” and “417.x". > > Can we just get rid of all this? Is there anyone who’s finding these labels > useful in GitHub? > > I suggest we remove these labels from the project. No objections to leaving > the version field in bugs.webkit.org for the time being, but eventually I > think we should probably get rid of that too. > > — Darin > ___ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
Re: [webkit-dev] Remove the version labels in GitHub
Indeed, I'd love it those didn't exist. (I always imagined them to be exclusively intended for bug reports originating from non-contributors, but I'm not even certain how much they've been used in that scenario.) From: Michael Catanzaro via webkit-dev Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2022 11:43:51 PM To: Darin Adler Cc: webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Remove the version labels in GitHub On Sat, Oct 22 2022 at 07:31:06 AM -0700, Darin Adler via webkit-dev wrote: > Can we just get rid of all this? That would be nice. These labels are not useful for pull requests. ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev__;!!JmoZiZGBv3RvKRSx!6acmLR6WO1OcQDLQ2ughafLmLz1jFFMq2eExjpA1bOHB0z7f6CZSgWhu6N6QR1_hUff4isSJ7zspgXf-ecOWUFrJtX0$ ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
Re: [webkit-dev] Remove the version labels in GitHub
On Sat, Oct 22 2022 at 07:31:06 AM -0700, Darin Adler via webkit-dev wrote: Can we just get rid of all this? That would be nice. These labels are not useful for pull requests. ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
[webkit-dev] Remove the version labels in GitHub
Hi folks. I understand it can be super critical to understand what version someone was testing when reporting a WebKit bug. But I, at least, haven’t found the version field at bugs.webkit.org useful in the 20+ years I have been working on this project. Now we have that same noise in GitHub. All my pull requests have the label WebKit Nightly Build on them when I use the “git webkit pr” command to create them. And we have lots of labels with various version numbers, such as “Safari 8” and “417.x". Can we just get rid of all this? Is there anyone who’s finding these labels useful in GitHub? I suggest we remove these labels from the project. No objections to leaving the version field in bugs.webkit.org for the time being, but eventually I think we should probably get rid of that too. — Darin ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
