Speaking from my time at HP/Palm working on webOS, there was always a desire to upstream the project particularly to avoid missing all the source reorganization going on in the main tree. Unfortunately, there's a large bar of entry to upstream a new WebKit port, and we never had the resources to make that happen...
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Charles Pritchard <ch...@jumis.com> wrote: > On 5/18/11 2:09 PM, Peter Kasting wrote: > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Brent Fulgham <bfulg...@webkit.org>wrote: > >> Google >> used this same approach with their Chromium port, the side effects of >> which find us in year two (or three?) of the effort to merge those >> changes back into the core WebKit archive. >> > > Um, what? The Chromium port is fully upstreamed and has been for some > time. I'm not sure what you're saying here. We are not forked and in fact > have no support for building Chromium with anything other than upstream > WebKit. > > > And as a web app developer, I've been happy to push bug fixes into WebKit > via Chromium bug reports. > > I heard from RIM that they're working hard to get their fork back in line > with WebKit upstream; > they've contributed a lot of work to WebKit upstream, but are not yet > merged back in... That's what I heard. > > I think Brent's question to the list may have some merit if looked at from > a different perspective. > Let me try it... Peter: Are there any lessons learned about that process > Chromium went through? > > As a coder, I certainly see that fork and merge process as a normal process > -- a company > forks from the upstream, works on the code base within their own product, > and at some point > their use becomes mature and they're able to merge back in with the > upstream. > > Are there any insights to that process -- or even estimates -- such as -- > it took us "x" months > once we had WebKit working for us, to get back to building directly with > the upstream. > > Little bits of information like that may be helpful to some WebKit vendors. > > > -Charles > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > >
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