On Jan 8, 2013, at 2:57 PM, Sam Weinig <wei...@apple.com> wrote: > Hello webkit-dev, > > We are making some changes to the development process for WebKit2. These > changes were announced to reviewers in advance, and I'd like to share them > with you now. > > WebKit2 has a core set of functionality that is valuable to all ports, and > then aspects that are only of limited/specialized interest. It is becoming > increasingly difficult to improve and advance the core functionality while > maintaining the more peripheral aspects. In addition, changes to the core > often require significant expertise to evaluate, for instance to ensure that > the security and responsiveness goals of WebKit2 are met. > > The changes are: > > 1) WebKit2 now has owners. Only owners should review WebKit2 patches. While > we do not want to apply this concept across the whole WebKit project at this > time, for WebKit2 it is appropriate. The list of owners is documented in the > Owners file at the WebKit2 top level directory, and in committers.py. > > 2) Ports must keep themselves building. Non Apple Mac ports, if broken by > core functionality changes to WebKit2, are now responsible for fixing > themselves. We have asked those who run the EWS bots to make sure that > failing to build WebKit2 does not block the commit queue from committing.
I didn't see a settlement on this point of the proposal on previous discussions. Did you elaborate on the feedback that you got when you asked for that the first time? I think it is a question of fair play to not leave core build bots of other platforms broken. That is what we agreed on WebKit and I don't see the reason why it should be different on WebKit2 (which is a part of WebKit). That doesn't mean that the other suggestions aren't reasonable. Greetings, Dirk > > 3) Over time, owners may remove peripheral functionality from the main > WebKit2 directory, such as support for features that aren't broadly > applicable. We will not do this immediately, and we will work with ports that > are interested in such features to create appropriate, maintainable > general-purpose mechanisms that can be used to implement them outside of core > WebKit2 code. > > While we understand that this change will inconvenience some ports, we have > decided that forward progress of WebKit2 is a more important concern, and we > are moving forward with this change tonight. > > - Sam > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
