On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Mark Rowe <mr...@apple.com> wrote: > > On 2013-05-04, at 15:32, Dean Jackson <d...@apple.com> wrote: > > > This is a brief summary of yesterday's discussion at the contributors' > meeting. If there is no strong disagreement here then I'll add this to the > wiki. > > > > New Features > > ------------ > > > > - The rule of sending an email to webkit-dev when you're about to start > work on a new feature remains in place. The idea here is that the community > can support or object to the feature even being in the tree. > > > > - Once the implementation of the feature is ready for use, send another > email to webkit-dev announcing your intentions to enable the feature in > nightly builds. How do you know when something is "ready for use”? > > By “nightly builds” do we mean “all ports in tip of tree”? If so, can we > please say that instead? “Nightly builds” refer to a specific subset of > builds produced from tip of tree and unless the intent is to enable the > features for that subset alone, and no other builds, it’s confusing to > phrase things in this way. >
I agree with Mark. "Turning a feature by default" is a much better description than "shipping in nightly builds" in that the person who sends such an email usually doesn't have control over what will be "shipped" in nightly builds anyway. - R. Niwa
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