On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Benjamin Poulain <benja...@webkit.org> wrote: > > I am sorry, I should have given more context. > > There is visibly a growing discontent in the community about the cost > imposed from small ports. Just two weeks ago, there were 2 threads > discussing the cost of "peripheral ports". > I am convinced a part of this is technical. The project has not changed its > policies while the number of ports was growing. While duplicated code and > interfaces was okay when there were only 3 ports, it has become a pain when > we have 7+ ports to updates ... > In his email "WebKit Wishes", Eric said "It can’t be the job of the core > maintainers to care about all the peripheral ports which contribute very > little core code."
I think it was an entirely reasonable question to ask if the wx port was being maintained, but I'm surprised by how this thread has evolved. There is a lot of discussion going on about the cost of so many ports, but not much about the benefits. Speaking personally, even before I joined Google, I was drawn to WebKit partially because it was used on such a wide variety of projects and in so many different ways. I was fortunate to be able to get a job that allows me to contribute to it, and I have found the work that I've done to help maintain the "peripheral" ports, while not pain free, quite rewarding (although I would be quite happy if it was less costly, of course). My point is that I think that lots of ports are part of what makes WebKit the goodness it is. Maybe I'm alone here, or at best part of a minority, but I wanted us to not lose sight of this idea. -- Dirk _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev