Updating the tradition for new reviewer blog posts
The Surfin' Safari blog seems to have fairly wide readership in the web dev community. Google Reader reports 35k Reader subscribers. For comparison: blog.chromium.org has 17k and blog.mozilla.com has 10k. However, the last post with descriptive content was back on April 18th. Since that post, we've written 8 "X is a now a WebKit reviewer" posts. One recent commenter said: *"I don’t suppose there’s anything more interesting going on in WebKit land worth blogging about, is there? So-and-so is a new WebKit reviewer isn’t nearly as interesting as whatever new hotness is coming down the pipe. And I know I’m not the only one who thinks so… Feel like blogging about WebKit awesomeness?"* I propose we increase the amount of blogging about WebKit awesomeness by changing the tradition for new reviewer posts. Instead of defaulting to: * So-and-so is now a WebKit reviewer* * Posted by Someone-else So-and-so has worked on awesome-feature or awesome-infrastructure...* We encourage (or just allow?) a format more like: * How awesome-infrastructure works* * Posted by So-and-so, the latest WebKit reviewer Here's my description of how awesome-infrastructure works in WebKit...* * * * -OR- * * ** Awesome-feature is the new hotness* * Posted by So-and-so, the latest WebKit reviewer Web developers can now use awesome-feature. Here's how it works...* Thoughts? -Tony
Woh. I think that's an awesome idea. :) Would also make sure that all reviewers are blog-enabled. Might be a bit to ask of new reviewers though. -eric On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Tony Gentilcore <tonyg@chromium.org> wrote:
The Surfin' Safari blog seems to have fairly wide readership in the web dev community. Google Reader reports 35k Reader subscribers. For comparison: blog.chromium.org has 17k and blog.mozilla.com has 10k. However, the last post with descriptive content was back on April 18th. Since that post, we've written 8 "X is a now a WebKit reviewer" posts. One recent commenter said: "I don’t suppose there’s anything more interesting going on in WebKit land worth blogging about, is there? So-and-so is a new WebKit reviewer isn’t nearly as interesting as whatever new hotness is coming down the pipe. And I know I’m not the only one who thinks so… Feel like blogging about WebKit awesomeness?"
I propose we increase the amount of blogging about WebKit awesomeness by changing the tradition for new reviewer posts.
Instead of defaulting to:
So-and-so is now a WebKit reviewer Posted by Someone-else So-and-so has worked on awesome-feature or awesome-infrastructure...
We encourage (or just allow?) a format more like:
How awesome-infrastructure works Posted by So-and-so, the latest WebKit reviewer Here's my description of how awesome-infrastructure works in WebKit... -OR-
Awesome-feature is the new hotness Posted by So-and-so, the latest WebKit reviewer Web developers can now use awesome-feature. Here's how it works...
Thoughts? -Tony _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
I'd be happy to write more posts for Surfin' Safari, but I don't know if I need approval, etc. Adam On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Eric Seidel <eric@webkit.org> wrote:
Woh. I think that's an awesome idea. :)
Would also make sure that all reviewers are blog-enabled.
Might be a bit to ask of new reviewers though.
-eric
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Tony Gentilcore <tonyg@chromium.org> wrote:
The Surfin' Safari blog seems to have fairly wide readership in the web dev community. Google Reader reports 35k Reader subscribers. For comparison: blog.chromium.org has 17k and blog.mozilla.com has 10k. However, the last post with descriptive content was back on April 18th. Since that post, we've written 8 "X is a now a WebKit reviewer" posts. One recent commenter said: "I don’t suppose there’s anything more interesting going on in WebKit land worth blogging about, is there? So-and-so is a new WebKit reviewer isn’t nearly as interesting as whatever new hotness is coming down the pipe. And I know I’m not the only one who thinks so… Feel like blogging about WebKit awesomeness?"
I propose we increase the amount of blogging about WebKit awesomeness by changing the tradition for new reviewer posts.
Instead of defaulting to:
So-and-so is now a WebKit reviewer Posted by Someone-else So-and-so has worked on awesome-feature or awesome-infrastructure...
We encourage (or just allow?) a format more like:
How awesome-infrastructure works Posted by So-and-so, the latest WebKit reviewer Here's my description of how awesome-infrastructure works in WebKit... -OR-
Awesome-feature is the new hotness Posted by So-and-so, the latest WebKit reviewer Web developers can now use awesome-feature. Here's how it works...
Thoughts? -Tony _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
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Anyone know how to roll out a series of changes, like the ones from https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43005 using sherrifbot or other tools? (or if someone could just roll out the changes from that patch...) thanks
You can do it with "git revert". You'll need to clean up the commit message and ChangeLog entries before actually landing it through. Using "git rebase -i" you can decide whether to land the rollout in one commit or several. Alternatively, you can try "webkit-patch rollout" on each revision in reverse order (I recommend doing this from a git working copy because it's faster). Adam On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Chris Fleizach <cfleizach@apple.com> wrote:
Anyone know how to roll out a series of changes, like the ones from
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43005
using sherrifbot or other tools?
(or if someone could just roll out the changes from that patch...)
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I think that it would be awesome as well. There is so much content to be blogged by the community. For example, I have myself two nice subjects of WebCore stuff I've been involved with: - rect based hit testing; - spatial navigation. Would be more than happy to get the contents of two posts published in Surfing Safari. ps: Maybe having reviewers feed in planet.webkit.org would be also a good idea. On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Adam Barth <abarth@webkit.org> wrote:
I'd be happy to write more posts for Surfin' Safari, but I don't know if I need approval, etc.
Adam
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Eric Seidel <eric@webkit.org> wrote:
Woh. I think that's an awesome idea. :)
Would also make sure that all reviewers are blog-enabled.
Might be a bit to ask of new reviewers though.
-eric
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Tony Gentilcore <tonyg@chromium.org> wrote:
The Surfin' Safari blog seems to have fairly wide readership in the web dev community. Google Reader reports 35k Reader subscribers. For comparison: blog.chromium.org has 17k and blog.mozilla.com has 10k. However, the last post with descriptive content was back on April 18th. Since that post, we've written 8 "X is a now a WebKit reviewer" posts. One recent commenter said: "I don’t suppose there’s anything more interesting going on in WebKit land worth blogging about, is there? So-and-so is a new WebKit reviewer isn’t nearly as interesting as whatever new hotness is coming down the pipe. And I know I’m not the only one who thinks so… Feel like blogging about WebKit awesomeness?"
I propose we increase the amount of blogging about WebKit awesomeness by changing the tradition for new reviewer posts.
Instead of defaulting to:
So-and-so is now a WebKit reviewer Posted by Someone-else So-and-so has worked on awesome-feature or awesome-infrastructure...
We encourage (or just allow?) a format more like:
How awesome-infrastructure works Posted by So-and-so, the latest WebKit reviewer Here's my description of how awesome-infrastructure works in WebKit... -OR-
Awesome-feature is the new hotness Posted by So-and-so, the latest WebKit reviewer Web developers can now use awesome-feature. Here's how it works...
Thoughts? -Tony _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
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On Aug 2, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
I'd be happy to write more posts for Surfin' Safari, but I don't know if I need approval, etc.
You don't need approval. - Maciej
Adam
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Eric Seidel <eric@webkit.org> wrote:
Woh. I think that's an awesome idea. :)
Would also make sure that all reviewers are blog-enabled.
Might be a bit to ask of new reviewers though.
-eric
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Tony Gentilcore <tonyg@chromium.org> wrote:
The Surfin' Safari blog seems to have fairly wide readership in the web dev community. Google Reader reports 35k Reader subscribers. For comparison: blog.chromium.org has 17k and blog.mozilla.com has 10k. However, the last post with descriptive content was back on April 18th. Since that post, we've written 8 "X is a now a WebKit reviewer" posts. One recent commenter said: "I don’t suppose there’s anything more interesting going on in WebKit land worth blogging about, is there? So-and-so is a new WebKit reviewer isn’t nearly as interesting as whatever new hotness is coming down the pipe. And I know I’m not the only one who thinks so… Feel like blogging about WebKit awesomeness?"
I propose we increase the amount of blogging about WebKit awesomeness by changing the tradition for new reviewer posts.
Instead of defaulting to:
So-and-so is now a WebKit reviewer Posted by Someone-else So-and-so has worked on awesome-feature or awesome-infrastructure...
We encourage (or just allow?) a format more like:
How awesome-infrastructure works Posted by So-and-so, the latest WebKit reviewer Here's my description of how awesome-infrastructure works in WebKit... -OR-
Awesome-feature is the new hotness Posted by So-and-so, the latest WebKit reviewer Web developers can now use awesome-feature. Here's how it works...
Thoughts? -Tony _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
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I agree that it would be good to have more useful and interesting content. I don't think it's good to do this by forcing the task on new reviewers. Not everyone enjoys a writing exercise and it shouldn't be required to become a reviewer. However, I encourage people to post about cool WebKitty stuff! - Maciej On Aug 2, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Tony Gentilcore wrote:
The Surfin' Safari blog seems to have fairly wide readership in the web dev community. Google Reader reports 35k Reader subscribers. For comparison: blog.chromium.org has 17k and blog.mozilla.com has 10k. However, the last post with descriptive content was back on April 18th. Since that post, we've written 8 "X is a now a WebKit reviewer" posts. One recent commenter said:
"I don’t suppose there’s anything more interesting going on in WebKit land worth blogging about, is there? So-and-so is a new WebKit reviewer isn’t nearly as interesting as whatever new hotness is coming down the pipe. And I know I’m not the only one who thinks so… Feel like blogging about WebKit awesomeness?"
I propose we increase the amount of blogging about WebKit awesomeness by changing the tradition for new reviewer posts.
Instead of defaulting to:
So-and-so is now a WebKit reviewer Posted by Someone-else So-and-so has worked on awesome-feature or awesome-infrastructure...
We encourage (or just allow?) a format more like:
How awesome-infrastructure works Posted by So-and-so, the latest WebKit reviewer Here's my description of how awesome-infrastructure works in WebKit...
-OR-
Awesome-feature is the new hotness Posted by So-and-so, the latest WebKit reviewer Web developers can now use awesome-feature. Here's how it works...
Thoughts?
-Tony _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
So what is the process then if you have a blog ready to post? Just get one person to review? On 2 ʻAok 2010, at 9:02 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
I agree that it would be good to have more useful and interesting content. I don't think it's good to do this by forcing the task on new reviewers. Not everyone enjoys a writing exercise and it shouldn't be required to become a reviewer. However, I encourage people to post about cool WebKitty stuff!
- Maciej
On Aug 2, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Tony Gentilcore wrote:
The Surfin' Safari blog seems to have fairly wide readership in the web dev community. Google Reader reports 35k Reader subscribers. For comparison: blog.chromium.org has 17k and blog.mozilla.com has 10k. However, the last post with descriptive content was back on April 18th. Since that post, we've written 8 "X is a now a WebKit reviewer" posts. One recent commenter said:
"I don’t suppose there’s anything more interesting going on in WebKit land worth blogging about, is there? So-and-so is a new WebKit reviewer isn’t nearly as interesting as whatever new hotness is coming down the pipe. And I know I’m not the only one who thinks so… Feel like blogging about WebKit awesomeness?"
I propose we increase the amount of blogging about WebKit awesomeness by changing the tradition for new reviewer posts.
Instead of defaulting to:
So-and-so is now a WebKit reviewer Posted by Someone-else So-and-so has worked on awesome-feature or awesome-infrastructure...
We encourage (or just allow?) a format more like:
How awesome-infrastructure works Posted by So-and-so, the latest WebKit reviewer Here's my description of how awesome-infrastructure works in WebKit...
-OR-
Awesome-feature is the new hotness Posted by So-and-so, the latest WebKit reviewer Web developers can now use awesome-feature. Here's how it works...
Thoughts?
-Tony _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
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participants (6)
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Adam Barth
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Antonio Gomes (:tonikitoo)
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Chris Fleizach
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Eric Seidel
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Maciej Stachowiak
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Tony Gentilcore