Re: [webkit-dev] Large Source Reorganizations By External WebKit Ports

2011-05-19 Thread Charles Pritchard
On 5/18/11 2:09 PM, Peter Kasting wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Brent Fulgham bfulg...@webkit.org mailto: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

Re: [webkit-dev] Large Source Reorganizations By External WebKit Ports

2011-05-19 Thread Levi Weintraub
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

Re: [webkit-dev] Large Source Reorganizations By External WebKit Ports

2011-05-19 Thread Peter Kasting
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Charles Pritchard ch...@jumis.com wrote: 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? Darin Fisher shared

[webkit-dev] Large Source Reorganizations By External WebKit Ports

2011-05-18 Thread Brent Fulgham
I've recently been spending some time reviewing some of the WebKit port that are not part of the core WebKit archive. Electronic Arts, for example, has been very good about making source dumps of their build of WebKit available (wow -- WebKit on the PS3! :), Playo has released their sources, and

Re: [webkit-dev] Large Source Reorganizations By External WebKit Ports

2011-05-18 Thread Peter Kasting
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

Re: [webkit-dev] Large Source Reorganizations By External WebKit Ports

2011-05-18 Thread Brent Fulgham
Hi Peter, On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Peter Kasting pkast...@google.com 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

Re: [webkit-dev] Large Source Reorganizations By External WebKit Ports

2011-05-18 Thread Ojan Vafai
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Brent Fulgham bfulg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Peter Kasting pkast...@google.com 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

Re: [webkit-dev] Large Source Reorganizations By External WebKit Ports

2011-05-18 Thread Darin Fisher
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Ojan Vafai o...@chromium.org wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Brent Fulgham bfulg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Peter Kasting pkast...@google.com wrote: Google used this same approach with their Chromium port, the