On Friday 09 April 2010 02:11:33 pm Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > There were in fact bugs opened with patches attached, and webkit-dev > was notified before any of the patches were committed afaik. However,
Indeed, but the post to webkit-dev had no link to the patches and no time was given for anyone in the community who hadn't been privy to the private development to have a look before it was landed. > the "new piece of tech" really is just a new API layer for the Mac and > Win ports. We are interested in other people being able to reuse this > technology, but fundamentally, this is an extension of our existing > APIs. I understand this now. I definitely didn't get this impression at first, but probably my mistake. > It was in retrospect not a good choice of name. We hoped it would be a > very boring choice. Think of it as WebKit/mac/async/ or something and > see if you might feel differently. It does throw things in a different light. However, I still think it would have been nice to give people an opportunity to have a look and a little time for discussion before it was landed. I lament that we have so much private development in the community although I understand the necessity at times. Cheers, Adam _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
