[webkit-dev] Best way to track feature evolution from release-to-release

[Darin Fisher]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Darin Fisher <darin at chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Right. Having a shared version number across WebKit builds will never
>>> catch every case (e.g. patches pulled into branches, disabled features,
>>> etc.), but it is better in general than developers using the individual
>>> products' version numbers.
>>>
>>
>> Totally agree.  We probably just need some kind of dotted notation to
>> handle branches.  The WebKit trunk should just increment N in "N.0", and
>> then branches can increment the minor number.
>>
>
> The branches are not cross-port though, right? We already have individual
> product numbers in the UA string that meet this need (e.g. the Chrome or
> Safari version number).
>
> Ojan
>


That's fair.  I think this is a complicated issue due to the likelihood of
features being disabled on a branch.  So, any "version number" corresponding
to the branch point alone may not be sufficient to describe the instance of
WebKit.

Yeah, the individual product numbers may just have to be the solution there
:-/

-Darin
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