On Feb 11, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Brent Fulgham wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> wrote: >> Asking people to ignore wx is basically the same as having the code outside >> the tree. Having the code outside the tree would make this change effective >> instead of having one more rule to the project. > > My big concern is not losing history while moving the wx files out of the > tree and into a git branch, and also at the same time not losing the ability > to merge the rest of trunk safely. Though I haven't investigated the process > yet, so I don't know how easy or hard it may be. > > I kindly ask you to let us remove it from trunk in that case. > > Given that we have 400+ contributors, having a port that's only maintained by > a single person on trunk imposes a significant maintenance burden on others > even if you said that people can break Wx port because not everyone reads > this thread and wouldn't necessarily know your intent. > > I would be sad if the WebKit project started to exclude ports simply because > they were (largely) maintained by a single person. I do agree that it's not > fair to other ports if the primary developer is not working to keep the port > building, but life happens and sometimes a lone developer cannot stay on top > of the rapidly-changing source base. > > Having these ports in the main tree is a good thing, in my opinion, because > it helps avoid fragmentation, and often the refactoring required to enable > these ports provides architectural benefits to the project as a whole.
FWIW, I think it'd be pretty simple to add a generic rule that if you want your port to benefit from shared maintenance, you must set up a build bot on the waterfall and/or an EWS bot. In fact, I personally think this ought to be a rule regardless of what happens to the wx port, as IMHO it's pretty much a pre-requisite for allowing people contributors on other ports to make changes to your code safely. Thanks, Kevin > -Brent
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