Re: [webkit-dev] What is an active port? [WAS: Do you maintain OS(WINCE)?]

2011-09-15 Thread Geoffrey Garen
Responding to a few issues at once: On Sep 14, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Adam Barth wrote: One of the things I admire about the WebKit project is that historically the project has been very inclusive. One common thread that's woven through a number of recent discussions is that folks feel we've

Re: [webkit-dev] What is an active port? [WAS: Do you maintain OS(WINCE)?]

2011-09-15 Thread Dirk Pranke
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Geoffrey Garen gga...@apple.com wrote: On Sep 14, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote: Maybe we need a webkit-port-maintainers@ list that one could easily cc rather than trying to add people by hand? Sounds helpful. Not sure exactly how it would work,

Re: [webkit-dev] What is an active port? [WAS: Do you maintain OS(WINCE)?]

2011-09-15 Thread David Levin
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Dirk Pranke dpra...@chromium.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Geoffrey Garen gga...@apple.com wrote: On Sep 14, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote: Maybe we need a webkit-port-maintainers@ list that one could easily cc rather than trying to

[webkit-dev] What is an active port? [WAS: Do you maintain OS(WINCE)?]

2011-09-14 Thread Geoffrey Garen
Hi Patrick. On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Patrick Gansterer par...@paroga.com wrote: How do we measure an active port??? I maintain a buildbot for WinCe and usually fix problems with the port within hours. Unfortunately I don't get paid to work on WebKit the whole day and so I can't make

Re: [webkit-dev] What is an active port? [WAS: Do you maintain OS(WINCE)?]

2011-09-14 Thread Adam Barth
One of the things I admire about the WebKit project is that historically the project has been very inclusive. One common thread that's woven through a number of recent discussions is that folks feel we've taken on too much complexity and that it's harder to make fundamental improvements to the

Re: [webkit-dev] What is an active port? [WAS: Do you maintain OS(WINCE)?]

2011-09-14 Thread Patrick Gansterer
Hi, I completely agree with all of your points. I also don't think that it's your task to keep every part time port working with every change. IMO most of the is active questions come with a when do we remove the old code/port from trunk question. That's not very cool to hear after the hard

Re: [webkit-dev] What is an active port? [WAS: Do you maintain OS(WINCE)?]

2011-09-14 Thread Dirk Pranke
Maybe we need a webkit-port-maintainers@ list that one could easily cc rather than trying to add people by hand? -- Dirk On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Patrick Gansterer par...@paroga.com wrote: Hi, I completely agree with all of your points. I also don't think that it's your task to keep

Re: [webkit-dev] What is an active port? [WAS: Do you maintain OS(WINCE)?]

2011-09-14 Thread Ryosuke Niwa
To mitigate this issue, Leandro (acidx) and I are working on change log parser that can automatically detect active patch contributors and reviewers. (See https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68061). Having said that, I think contributors should help maintaining ports that have bots on

Re: [webkit-dev] What is an active port? [WAS: Do you maintain OS(WINCE)?]

2011-09-14 Thread Ryosuke Niwa
For those of you interested in this stuff, I have a patch to add a webkit.org/team.html that auto-generates a list of contributors from committers.py on https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68045. This version doesn't include area of expertise but we can add it easily once the bug 68061 is