[webkit-dev] Use BlinkMergeCandidate to merge/back port Blink changes

Darin Adler darin at apple.com
Thu May 23 09:26:41 PDT 2013


On May 23, 2013, at 8:42 AM, Sergio Villar Senin <svillar at igalia.com> wrote:

> There is an interesting question about merging fixes from Blink. Should we keep the original author in the ChangeLog appending the name of the merger maybe?

Generally speaking, the person committing to WebKit is responsible for the content of the patch. I prefer not to think of that person as the “merger”. Their name should still be on the patch.

And yes, I think it’s handy to cite the name of the author of the Blink patch in the change log.

-- Darin


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