[webkit-dev] A more detailed source tree overview

[Adam Barth]

Unfortunately, the information in WebKitSourceLayout.md is much too
detailed.  It contains many facts that happen to be true at this
moment, but are likely to change at any moment.  It's unlikely that
we'll keep this documentation up to date, which means it's just going
to get stale and perhaps cause confusion.

I would encourage you to dive in and fix bugs rather than trying to
understand all of the code at the beginning.  Our experience is that
folks can make useful contributions to the project without
understanding everything in detail ahead of time.  The code review
process is our main technique for teaching new contributors about the
codebase.  Contributing code also scales nicely in that you can
contribute patches that grow in complexity as your understanding of
the codebase grows.

Adam


On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Breckin Loggins
<bloggins+webkit at greatfoundry.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been trying to familiarize myself with the WebKit source tree.  I
> started at https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/HighLevelOverview but it is a bit
> sparse.  While I was checking out and building the code I decided to do some
> deeper browsing and document my findings.  The resulting markdown doc is
> attached.
>
> Questions:
> 1. Does this look like something you'd like to see added to the Wiki?  Some
> of the remarks are assumptions and may be incorrect (I marked ones where I
> was REALLY guessing with "(?)").  I'll be happy to fix any inaccuracies.
>
> 2. I have a trac account but I didn't want to edit the existing High Level
> Overview page or add a new page without permission.  Is there documentation
> somewhere for the process of submitting wiki changes (as opposed to
> committing code patches)?
>
> Also, I think the markdown syntax will need to be tweaked and some links
> changed to Wiki-relative ones rather than absolute URLs.  I'll be sure to
> change that once I get some guidance on adding this to the Wiki.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Breckin
>
>
>
>
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