Due to the recent changes, I propose that we revert everything back to a prior commit on this branch. Given that we use the interfaces to define the API for the ThirdParty WebViews used by Crosswalk and others, the irony of reverting is should be clear. The fact is that we can't have people dumping hundreds of commits that totally destroy months of work that we've done, including all the consensus-building that was done. This totally undermines the feeling that everyone is contributing in good faith.
Honestly, if I even remotely tried to do the same thing, I know that many people on this project would have major objections to this, so I don't know why people are being silent about this now. We can't have hundreds of commits just dumped into any branch of the ASF repos, since we have no easy way to do a revert of this. We have no --force, and I'm probably going to have to fork and delete the 4.0.x branch. I'm going to do this after the conference call, but I'm extremely upset about the recent changes. We can't just say "shit will be broken anyway" and use it as an excuse to break other people's work. I honestly don't know what to say about this at this point, since we've never had to do something like this before. I'm extremely frustrated at the fact that I've been ignored every time I've raised concerns on this list and that some of us are held to higher standards than others. I really hope we can talk about this on the call, because this is beyond unacceptable. I'm not sure what was supposed to be accomplished, and why talking about features is some sort of unknown barrier that we're trying to avoid. At this point, there's no way we could even remotely vote on a major release. How can we work past this so that we can actually work on this project again? Joe
