On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 17:04 -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > From looking at history and by hanging around since around > April, I believe Christian Dywan, is a very good candidate. >
I totally agree with Gustavo: these patches have rotted in Bugzilla for a long time. Frankly, WebKitGtk is still missing quite a lot of API that is required to write anything other than relatively trivial applications. Many WebKitGtk contributors have been working on these API changes for some time. They required a fair amount of work, but very few of them have been merged yet. Also, since the Commit and Review Policy requires contributors to have many good patches in before getting commit or review rights, we have a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. Because there is a review bottleneck, contributors don't get many patches in, so there are less candidates to become reviewers, so there is a review bottleneck, etc. The fact is, some of us are tired of having to beg/push to get those patches reviewed. Some contributors and companies have left the project because it is so difficult to get patches reviewed and committed. This status quo is hurting the project because we have a harder time selling WebKitGtk without visible progress. We need to implement the API and features that people need to be able to use WebKitGtk in real-world applications. I fear that GTK+ projects are going to decide that it's not worthwhile to wait for WebKitGtk to become usable and will simply choose to use Mozilla since the features are all implemented even if their API is not very nice. So I really hope that there is some way to solve this problem. I believe there are people within the WebKitGtk project that could do a good job as reviewers. I second Gustavo's recommendation of Christian Dywan, as he has been very active on the project, has plenty of quality patches submitted and he's well aware of the required changes needed to the Gtk+ API in order to have a working browser (he is the main developer of Midori and a contributor to Gtk+). But most importantly, he's willing to do the job. Nominating Christian might mean bending the rules, but at this point, it would be better to have a community approved reviewer than seeing forks starting to appear. -- Pierre-Luc Beaudoin Collabora Ltd.
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