Do we plan to live on the edge of the wave once we're entirely unforked, and
never do merges again?
- Pam

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Darin Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:

> This sounds good to me as a temporary measure while we are still doing
> merges.
> We are supposed to be unforked by the end of the quarter, right?  ;-)
>
> -Darin
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Ojan Vafai <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> In the spirit of trying to fix all the layout tests that represent
>> real regressions since our initial launch, I've just committed a
>> changelist that defers the tests that are failing that are new to
>> webkit since the revision of our launch or whose expectations changed
>> upstream (the latter was only a couple tests, the former was almost 80
>> tests). If people think this is an awful idea, I can rollback.
>>
>> I don't think it makes sense to block releases to the stable channel
>> on new tests that we've never passed. My biggest concern with each
>> release is breaking sites that previously used to work in Chrome. New
>> tests, for the most part, don't represent regressions like that. Does
>> it make sense to make a policy of deferring new, failing tests from a
>> webkit merge by default. The person doing the merge should put a good
>> faith effort into getting it fixed, but it shouldn't block cutting a
>> release.
>>
>> Eventually we'll get to a point where we only have deferred tests left
>> and we can start tackling that long list of tests without having it
>> hinder our ability to push releases to the stable channel.
>>
>> Ojan
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>

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