[webkit-dev] Tagging bug names with a platform name: limit to platform-specific patches

[Anton Muhin]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 20, 2010, at 8:18 AM, Darin Adler wrote:
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>> Hi folks.
>>
>> We’ve never formalized this, but I believe that patches tagged with a particular platform name such as
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>>     [Qt] Add new API for fluffy bunnies
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>> should be limited to one particular platform’s code. If the patch changes more than a trivial bit of platform-independent code, even if the change is only for the benefit of a signle platform, I suggest we not use the platform name prefix.
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> Makes sense to me. I would also like to suggest that people should *not* use the bracket convention for things besides platform, like [dom] or [style-queue]. Some people (e.g. me) use queries to split bracket-prefix patches into a separate list, and it's better not to hide general-purpose patches.

Sorry for using those, tried to be a good citizen :)

Should be tags like dom, v8 omitted completely or is there some other
way to communicate the system?

yours,
anton.
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