Am 25.01.2010 um 05:07 schrieb Maciej Stachowiak:
On Jan 24, 2010, at 7:42 PM, David Kilzer wrote:
On Sun, January 24, 2010 at 7:09:26 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
I think deleting the areas of knowledge is a regrettable loss of
information. I
think it's helpful to give people at least a few starting points
for their
questions, because not everyone is going to be comfortable firing
random
questions at IRC, and svn blame i not a very useful tool if you
don't know the
code very well yet. Further, even for experienced contributors, I
think this
information could be useful as a guide to whom you might hassle to
review your
patch, if it doesn't get reviewed right away. I mean, I've been
involved in the
project for a pretty long time, and I can't honestly say I know
the right people
to ask for advice on every possible topic in the code, without a
reference.
One possible alternative would be to update the bugs.webkit.org
Component page with a list of reviewers by component:
<https://bugs.webkit.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=WebKit>
I don't think we're looking to list just reviewers but rather
"people who know about this topic" and therefore might be good to
ask about the topic. Often you want to know this before you even
start working on a patch. Some types of expert advice are cross-
cutting across components as well. For example, if you want to find
a person who can help you with performance work, or analyze the
security impact of a feature, those kinds of things are not likely
to be components.
And finally, the only fields we have for components are the
description, default assignee and default Cc list. I am not sure any
of these is appropriate as a way to indicate people who know most
about the topic, given our process.
Completly agreed. I found those information useful in my past as
WebKit beginner and I think we should rather update it and/or make it
available on a more prominent place.
Ideally we'd have a view which can give you all information mentioned
in previous threads: sorted by area of expertise / vendor / chronology.
What do others think about it?
Cheers,
Niko
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