Sounds like a reasonable move. Congrats Jason :)
Kannan On 13-10-01 2:59 PM, Luke Wagner wrote:
JS engine hackers, I'd like to make Jason Orendorff the new JS engine module owner. My reasoning: Since creating the js/jit submodule and making Jan the owner, I've been thinking about the new meaning of the role of js module owner. Since pretty much everything related to performance has one or two feet in the jit these days (with exceptions, of course, parser improvements being a notable one) and performance is pretty much the primary observable feature of the jit, it seems to me that the js/jit submodule logically owns benchmarketing, investigating performance faults, and hunting out new ways to make JS fast. Jan and the jit peers have been doing a great job of this. So what does that leave in the immediate scope of the general js module? The way I see it, quite a lot: implementing new JS features, evaluating JS language proposals for implementability, participating in standards discussions, improving the JS engine's dev tool support, maintaining and improving the jsapi, and promoting good code and engine-wide styles/idioms. At least, these are things I've seen myself involved in and other people involving me in. Ideally, I think a module owner would spend the majority of their time working in the areas mentioned above. Unfortunately, I'm not: most of my work is on the Platform/Games project (wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Games) and so I find myself doing the bare minimum. Fortunately, there is, I think, a perfect candidate: jorendorff. Jason has worked on the JS engine longer than I have and has implemented or reviewed iirc pretty much every new JS language feature we've added in that time. Jason writes great code, has a keen eye for correctness and simplicity, and does a good job promoting community on irc and newsgroups. Based on the above, I can see no reason not to hand over module ownership to Jason. Jason has graciously agreed, so a big 'thank you' and 'congratulations'! Brendan, as module owner of the Module Ownership System, has also given his blessing. Cheers, Luke P.S. To be quite clear, this idea just occurred to me as an optimization of our current state and not in response to anything negative; I've had a fun time wearing the module owner hat, I just think Jason would wear it better :) _______________________________________________ dev-tech-js-engine-internals mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-js-engine-internals
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