On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Jeremy Orlow <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Adam Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Or perhaps the >> > > Chromium port will just use JS bindings (no V8)? >> >> I think this is trickier than you might think. Also, it partially >> defeats the point of upstreaming our port if we don't actually use the >> upstream port. :) >> > > Yes and no. It might be nice to have a Chromium+JSC and a Chromium+V8 bot. > I know we (Dimitri, IIRC) were planning on doing this anyway on our own > build infrastructure...why not do it upstream instead? > If webkit folk are OK with us adding a bunch of builders (we'll want Chromium mac/win/linux as well, right?), I think this is a great idea. > > The lack of WebKit trybots is a real obstacle to landing large >> patches/new >> > files currently because I can't easily test the build-side changes on >> the >> > GTK and Qt ports, and it sounds like that issue will be exacerbated for >> the >> > Chromium port if we use the V8 bindings on the build bot. >> >> This is a large pain-point for a lot of WebKit contributors. bdash >> has said that he's working on trybots, but they have yet to >> materialize. I wonder if this is something we could help the WebKit >> community with? >> > > We can probably donate man-power, but I doubt they'll want to take any code > from us (for whatever reason)...though we could always ask. :-) > I've talked to bweinstein on #webkit about this. They are "blocked on getting machines" and that is hoped to happen in a timeframe of "weeks, not months". I don't know long it'll take to actually get them up once machines arrive. I don't think it's just a question of manpower. And I don't know how we could help them get machines faster. Maybe that's worth pursuing. This is easily my biggest painpoint with doing webkit development. If I could just grab windows baselines off a trybot and not need to built/run tests on Windows for WebKit, I honestly think I would be order of magnitude more productive doing webkit patches. In fact, all I really want is a Windows trybot (a Mac one wouldn't hurt). How hard would it be to just set these up ourselves on a chromium.org site for our own use? (obviously we'd make it available to the broader WebKit community) Ojan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
