[webkit-dev] GTK Skiplist

[Jeremy Orlow]

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:15 PM, David Levin <levin at chromium.org> wrote:

> It looks like I made a comment (that I don't even remember at this point :)
> ) which may have triggered this.
>
> fwiw, I try to respect how other platforms are maintaining their code
> because I'd like other people to do the same even if they may think may
> platform is odd.
>

There is of course a balance to be struck between the freedoms of a port to
do things the way it likes with the burden it places on the community.  (I
say this knowing that Chromium has its equivalent of a Skiplist in a
completely different format.  But we do this for a very good reason, and I
believe work is under way to unify things.)


> In this case, what is desired is very clearly spelled out in the file:
> http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/LayoutTests/platform/gtk/Skipped#L4
>

Sure, but as is already clear by Xan and Darin's response, it seems that the
situation may not be as clear as the text makes it sound.


> I don't know why that was added because I didn't do it :). If one disagrees
> with that comment, it seems like a very reasonable path to take would be to
> figure out who wrote that (which isn't hard in git or svn) and* take it up
> with them/the reviewer of that patch to understand if there is some reason
> for this peculiarity* (and then maybe clarify the comment in some way).
>

The only thing I may have done wrong here is spam a list when a direct email
could have done.  But even then, the answer would have probably warranted a
PSA style email to the list (given that many of us are apparently not on the
same page with this policy).  And such an email very well could have kicked
off a debate of its own.  So I felt like it was worth doing this in a
broadcast manner.  (If it were some nit in a particular part of a code, I
would have done it differently.)

Btw, I find it humorous that, by your own logic, you probably should have
sent your rebuke in a private email.  :-)

J


> dave
>
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Jeremy Orlow <jorlow at chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> I promise to only put IndexedDB tests in the indexeddb directory.  :-)
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sep 3, 2010, at 5:50 AM, Jeremy Orlow wrote:
>>>
>>> > Recently in a code review for IndexedDB, I was told that I should be
>>> adding every test individually to GTK's skip list.
>>>
>>> That doesn’t sound quite right. One of the reasons the tests are grouped
>>> into directories is so that things like the Skipped list can take advantage
>>> of the categories created.
>>>
>>> However, we don’t want to disable tests just because someone made an
>>> unfortunate choice of what directory to put them in. Lets make sure that
>>> doesn’t happen!
>>>
>>>    -- Darin
>>>
>>>
>>
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