[webkit-dev] Proposal: Immediate Deprecation of ChangeLogs

[Ryosuke Niwa]

On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 9:27 PM Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 20:36 Chris Dumez <cdumez at apple.com> wrote:
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>> [Not sure why Apple Mail sent Ryosuke’s replies to the Junk folder but I finally noticed.]
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> It's something to do with @webkit.org not being able to send a proper sender ID due to it being a forwarding address.
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>> On May 10, 2022, at 3:04 PM, Ryosuke Niwa via webkit-dev <webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org> wrote:
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>> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 3:01 PM Jonathan Bedard via webkit-dev
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>> On May 10, 2022, at 2:46 PM, Geoffrey Garen <ggaren at apple.com> wrote:
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>> Do I undertand correctly that the proposal here is
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>>      (a) Immediately Deprecate ChangeLogs
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>> Yes
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>>      (b) Immediately end support for posting patches from Subversion checkouts?
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>> We would be immediately ending support for _landing_ patches posted from a Subversion checkout. EWS would continue to accept and test patches posted from Subversion checkouts.
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>> Just this week, I landed 2~3 patches using a pure Subversion checkout.
>> It's actually my primary method of landing patches in WebKit right
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>> Do you feel like 1 week is not enough time for you to do a git checkout and familiarize yourself enough with GIT to upload patches? Is that the issue? If so, how long do you feel would be reasonable?
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> I already have GitHub clones. The issue I have is with committing directly. I need to be able to commit directly as is since commit queue even fast one is simply way too slow.
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>> If you’re not ready to adopt the GitHub workflow for a reason or another, git-svn / bugzilla patches is still a thing and will still work for now. Only committing from pure SVN repositories would go away in a week.
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> Well, that's precisely my use case. I don't even write a patch in a pure Subversion checkout anymore these days.
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> - R. Niwa
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