One other thought for those of you looking for areas to contribute on the Linux side of things is to start working on the chrome unit_tests project. There are a number of tests in this project that don't depend explicitly on WebKit. I'd guess that a bunch of chrome/common, browser/history, browser/safe_browsing, browser/net, etc. are all doable. You'll need to do some hacking to the SConscript file to make sure it doesn't try to use anything from WebKit or other projects that haven't been ported, but that should be straightforward.
As with all of these things, be sure to file bugs about the areas that you're working on so that it's easier for people to avoid conflicts. Erik On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Evan Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Back before we were public I used to send out semiregular status > reports, but Darin pointed out I can now send them here.] > > http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list?q=os:linux is hopefully > up to date with what everyone's working on. Please feel free to bring > other Linux-specific bugs to my attention. > We've had a bunch of contributions from people outside Google, which > is pretty rad. > > I believe we [people working on Linux] are currently kind of > bottlenecked on the WebKit merge: there's little point in making our > local copy of WebKit code portable when those changes have been made > upstream already. The merge is especially gnarly this time because > we've been tracking the stable Safari 3.1 branch of WebKit the past > few months and now we're trying to switch to trunk, and simultaneously > we've been trying to push upstream as much of our forked code as > reasonable. > > To that end, Tony has been helping with the merge; last I heard > they've finally got all the compiler warnings fixed and are just down > to 4,200 linker errors. ;) If you want to help out with that, try > asking on the (temporary) channel #chromium-merge on freenode. > > Unfortunately, testing changes done for the merge currently requires > Windows, so maybe it'll be hard to help if all you have is Linux. On > the other hand, hopefully this will be done soon, and once the port is > a bit more flushed out future merges can be done on your platform of > choice. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
