[webkit-dev] It's time to remove the Haiku port

[Peter Kasting]

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood at gmail.com>wrote:

> The primary problem with our port right now is some of the developers
> made the choice (which I objected to) to make our own Subversion repo
> containing the WebKit code to make it easier (in their eyes) to
> develop the port.
>
> Where can we go from here? What does the WebKit project need to see
> from the Haiku maintainers to have us be a supported port again?


It seems like either you should be a private fork/port, or a public
upstreamed one, but not both.  If you want to live in the upstream tree, I
think most of your development work should land quickly in public.  If you
want to work in a separate repository without landing changes back upstream
quickly*, I think it's better to stay private until the point at which that
changes.

*At most I don't think your private repo should be more than a couple weeks
off the public repo.

Based on our experience with the Chromium port I think it would be far
easier on your group to be public and do development directly in the public
tree.

PK
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