[webkit-dev] WebKit Transition to Git

[Ryosuke Niwa]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 11:00 AM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at gnome.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 6:36 pm, Philippe Normand <philn at igalia.com>
> wrote:
> > Would you also consider preventing merge commits in order to keep a
> > clean mainline branch?
>
> Big +1 to blocking merge commits. Merge commits in a huge project like
> WebKit would make commit archaeology very frustrating. (I assume this
> is implied by the monotonic commit identifiers proposal, but it doesn't
> exactly say that.)
>
> I'm sure transition to git and GitHub should go well. I would have
> selected GitLab myself -- it's nicer and also overwhelmingly popular --
> but whatever. (Does GitHub have merge request approvals? Replicating
> our reviewer/owner permissions with GitLab merge request approvals
> would be easy.)
>
> One downside is that using github.com might actually make it *too* easy
> to spam us with low-quality issue reports and merge requests. We've
> historically been pretty bad at maintaining a clean issue tracker --
> the quantity of untriaged issues on Bugzilla is very high -- and GitHub
> will make this worse. That's not an issue with the GitHub platform,
> though. Just something to stay on top of.

Since one of the goals is to engage better with the web developer
community, it's imperative that we improve this process. e.g. we need
some way to review & triage newly filed issues. Since Igalia has a lot
more experience working with other open source projects, do you have
some suggestions in how to approach that?

- R. Niwa