And here, I have to make a short comment on the non-acceptance of
our ARM
JIT implementation. In your mail you mention that you would remain
reluctant to accept a duplicate of the JIT into the tree, rather
than a
port of the existing JIT utilizing the MacroAssembler abstraction.
Well,
did you check our ARM port? It has been rewritten to conform to the
MacroAssembler interfaces more than a month ago and posted it into the
bugzilla (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24986).
Hi Zoltan,
I'm sorry if I'm misinterpreting you here, but it sounds like over the
last month you have been expecting your MacroAssembler based ARM port
to have been reviewed. If so -
Then I can quite understand your frustration, and do sympathize
greatly with you. There clearly has been a breakdown in
communication, and I'm sorry about your disappointment. I'm afraid
that we had no way of knowing that you considered your port to be
complete. Just last week, in an email on this list, I said, "when you
have a patch ready for review, please attach it to the bug and set the
review flag" – I was under the impression that you did not feel your
changes were yet final (by the sound of it I was mistaken). I was
assuming that when a final patch was ready you would attach it to the
bug, and mark it for review.
We have a procedure for accepting contributions to avoid exactly this
kind of miscommunication. The mechanism for communicating to us that
you believe your patch is ready is very simple, and is absolutely
critical if you want to get code into WebKit. Patches ready for
review must be marked as such in bugzilla. Without this we cannot
tell which patches attached to bugs are complete, and which represent
work in progress.
I urge you to review the instructions on contributing on the website,
since following these will be the only way to avoid similar
disappointment in the future. Perhaps this is an area where we need
to improve our communication – perhaps we need to make these
instructions clearer, or more prominent on the website. The website
is all stored in svn, so please do file bugs in bugzilla – or patches
welcome – if you think these can be improved.
Anyway, we have updated the MacroAssembler-based ARM port of ours,
uploaded it to the bugzilla, and set the review flag on the patch.
I've had a brief chance to look at the patch, and it's looking really
great. There are some bits to clean up a little to get it through
review, and we will want to land a change of this magnitude
incrementally. I'm afraid that I have a busy day today, I will try to
comment on the bug tonight but it may have to wait until the morning.
Hopefully we can get this landed into ToT fairly quickly.
cheers,
G.
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