Taking off off public-html, since this side point isn't really on-topic.
On Jul 27, 2009, at 6:34 AM, Sam Ruby wrote:
P.S. My experience (with Decimal) is that the development model for Linux and HTML5 are well more open than WebKit. YMMV.
But I looked at http://bugs.webkit.org/ and did not see any bug reports or patches from you, nor any from anyone else relating to Decimal. I do see a webkit-dev mailing list message from you[1], which didn't seem to garner a reply (either positive or negative). It also references this message on es4-discuss where I explained the development process and cited the relevant resources for contributing[2].
Studying things after the fact, it looks to me like you proposed to implement a feature that no one particularly objected to, but that no one else on the project was hugely excited by either. After that, you didn't follow through. I don't think that's a failure of project openness.
Perhaps your perspective was different, in which case I'd be curious to here what you saw as a lack of openness.
Regards, Maciej [1] https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2008-July/004534.html [2] https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es4-discuss/2008-July/003208.html
