Simon Hausmann wrote:
On Friday 23 November 2007 18:31:41 Alp Toker wrote:
http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/wiki/ProjectVision?action=diff&versi on=1
Please revert this change until the topic has been discussed on the mailing list or bug tracker. You can't just make up a project vision like that.
Apart from that name of the page what do you think about the content itself?
I thought nobody was going to ask :-) It sounds mostly like hot air to me. "algorithm to obtain commit and review rights"? I'm sure Apple will agree with any request to give developers having a good track record and cohesion with the rest of the team commit and review status. There is an element of discretion here and I don't think you can just derive a formula for these decisions. I kind of like the charisma of Surfin' Safari (which evolved from Dave Hyatt's blog, right?) and think it would be a shame to see it turn into another blog aggregator. http://planet.webkit.org/ would be neat though. I can get on the case and set this up if we all agree here. Versioning is a technical matter rather than a "vision" issue. I'm sure we can develop a system for sharing versioning information with a little help from Mark. Release schedules, on the other hand, are a complex and contentious topic. A friend once remarked that working on WebKit TOT is "like sitting on a volcano" which occasionally hurls out new features and releases. Again, I think that this needn't be a "vision" issue but rather a whole new thread of discussion. At the end of the day, the Qt port is going to want to align with Qt releases, GTK+ is going to want to align with the GNOME platform and Apple is going to match OS X, so I wouldn't get my hopes up.