[webkit-dev] OWNERS policy

Ryosuke Niwa rniwa at webkit.org
Wed Feb 21 13:49:05 PST 2018


If there was any confusion, WebKit2 Owner's policy is still active and in
effect.

In the case you aren't sure of the right reviewer, you can send a bulk
email to all of us. I get cc'ed on every WebKit bug with Mac EWS/CQ
failure, and as such, I ignore all WebKit bugs I'm cc'ed unless the bug
title is of my interest.

- R. Niwa

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 1:27 PM, youenn fablet <youennf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Don,
>
> I am not sure there is a well defined policy.
> If we want to continue with owners, it would indeed be good to make it
> clearer and more functional.
>
> Here is my current understanding.
> The multi-process architecture is now well in place so things like
> updating IPC encoders/decoders might no longer require a dedicated owner
> scrutiny.
> Exposing the right WK2 APIs is more sensitive on the other hand.
>
>    Y
>
> Le mer. 21 févr. 2018 à 12:52, <Don.Olmstead at sony.com> a écrit :
>
>> Hi WebKittens,
>>
>>
>>
>> As you know we're working on getting WinCairo running on modern WebKit.
>> We're working through a backlog of patches we have to upstream and are
>> sometimes running into issues where we can't find reviewers for our code.
>>
>>
>>
>> Here are some bugs with attachments that have been hanging out for over 5
>> days.
>>
>>
>>
>> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182870
>>
>> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182869
>>
>> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182751
>>
>>
>>
>> One thing we're unclear on is the OWNERS policy. The list itself is
>> pretty small and has no guidance on who might be the right person(s) to
>> assign a bug to when touching shared code. It feels like we're just
>> guessing on reviewers which doesn't seem like it helps anything move along.
>>
>>
>>
>> There also seem to be commits that were reviewed by non-owners that are
>> touching common code. We're not sure if unfamiliarity with Windows might
>> prevent some owners from looking over a patch as we move further along in
>> our implementation.
>>
>>
>>
>> Basically we'd like to get some clarification here so we can keep landing
>> patches for modern WebKit on Windows.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Sony WebKit Team
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