On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Kevin Ollivier <kev...@theolliviers.com>wrote:
> > On Feb 11, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Benjamin Poulain wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Kevin Ollivier > <kev...@theolliviers.com>wrote: > >> I actually have recently been working on a patch to get trunk building >> again, though. The path of least resistance for me would simply be to ask >> people to ignore the wx port in their changes, but leave it in the tree. >> git is much better about these things, but I still remember what a pain it >> was to maintain the entire port in an svn branch back in the day, and I'd >> rather not re-try that experiment unless I really have to. If people feel >> strongly that I should approach things another way, though, I'm certainly >> open to ideas. >> > > Asking people to ignore wx is basically the same as having the code > outside the tree. Having the code outside the tree would make this change > effective instead of having one more rule to the project. > > Looking at the history of wx's WebKit and platform code, the vast majority > of changes are from Apple/Google. I think it is unfair to have many people > maintain your code while you develop the project outside of the tree. > > Given the data, I am in favor of removing the wx port from webkit.org and > have it be a separate tree on Gitorious or GitHub. > What are the main pain points of developing outside webkit.org for you? > Is there anything that can be done in the structure to simplify such > changes? > > > My big concern is not losing history while moving the wx files out of the > tree and into a git branch, and also at the same time not losing the > ability to merge the rest of trunk safely. Though I haven't investigated > the process yet, so I don't know how easy or hard it may be. > I kindly ask you to let us remove it from trunk in that case. Given that we have 400+ contributors, having a port that's only maintained by a single person on trunk imposes a significant maintenance burden on others even if you said that people can break Wx port because not everyone reads this thread and wouldn't necessarily know your intent. - R. Niwa
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