[webkit-dev] Fwd: Review queue needs love

Maciej Stachowiak mjs at apple.com
Fri Jun 19 11:46:10 PDT 2009


On Jun 19, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Drew Wilson wrote:

> I absolutely understand that there are ways to proactively find  
> reviewers, and I'm *not* complaining about the time being taken (I  
> understand the constraints that most of the webkit reviewers have  
> been under the last few weeks with WWDC, etc). As you say, we can  
> always ping people on IRC to find reviewers for bugfixes.
>
> I was more specifically wondering if there was something about this  
> patch that made it not show up on the list Eric provided below. My  
> concern is because the bugfix came from a google.com address, it  
> might have been getting lumped in with the "oh, must be Yet Another  
> Chromium Patch so I won't worry about it" list, which if true has  
> troubling implications given that there are an increasing number of  
> Googlers that are making contributions to WebKit that have nothing  
> to do with Chromium.

I try to tag Chromium-specific bugs with [Chromium] in the bug title  
when I go through the review queue, and I know others do as well, so  
from the fact that this bug is not so tagged you can assume we are  
aware it is a cross-platform fix.

  - Maciej

>
> -atw
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:51 AM, David Levin <levin at google.com>  
> wrote:
> Drew, if you go to http://nightly.webkit.org/start/, then click  
> "Patches awaiting Review".
>
> That is the list folks work off of, but it doesn't hurt to figure  
> out the appropriate person to review the patch (find out who has  
> changed the file a lot) and ping them in irc to see if they can get  
> to it.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Drew Wilson <atwilson at google.com>  
> wrote:
> I note that this bug fix:
>
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23721
>
> ...was not on the list below, and has been waiting for some reviewer  
> love for a couple of weeks now. Is it falling through the cracks  
> somehow?
>
> -atw
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Andrei Popescu <andreip at google.com>  
> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Eric Seidel<eric at webkit.org> wrote:
> >
> > The other 24 remaining patches consist of 6 Gtk patches, 3 Chromium
> > patches, and a bunch of huge new feature patches.
> >
>
> No quite. The following two are rather small patches to common code
> (appcache and database):
>
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22700
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25711
>
> I think Alexey promised to look at them.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrei
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