On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Adam Barth <aba...@webkit.org> wrote: >> Yeah, I'm not sure where we should draw the line, but this case seems >> pretty clearly in the "unmaintained" camp, as was the old Android >> port. Maybe a good rule of thumb is something like if the community >> is spending more effort maintaining a port over a long period of time >> than the nominal maintainers of that port, then it's a sign that the >> port is creating negative value for the project. > > I'm not sure. For one-person/small ports, this might always be the case > because they won't be able to contribute at the rate other ports do.
I think any time the larger community is spending more effort than the port authors on a particular port we should be wary about keeping the port. Certainly that indicates that either our base-costs for having a port are too high (our platform abstraction is poor, etc.) or that the port maintainers aren't active enough in the project. -eric _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
