[webkit-dev] Updating the tradition for new reviewer blog posts
Chris Fleizach
cfleizach at apple.com
Mon Aug 2 23:11:43 PDT 2010
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:
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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!
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> - Maciej
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> On Aug 2, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Tony Gentilcore wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> "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?"
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>> I propose we increase the amount of blogging about WebKit awesomeness by changing the tradition for new reviewer posts.
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>> Instead of defaulting to:
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>> So-and-so is now a WebKit reviewer
>> Posted by Someone-else
>> So-and-so has worked on awesome-feature or awesome-infrastructure...
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>> We encourage (or just allow?) a format more like:
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>> How awesome-infrastructure works
>> Posted by So-and-so, the latest WebKit reviewer
>> Here's my description of how awesome-infrastructure works in WebKit...
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>> -OR-
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>> 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...
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>> Thoughts?
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>> -Tony
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