[webkit-dev] Deployment of new EWS Non-Unified builder

[Adrian Perez de Castro]

Hi again,

On Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:02:05 +0300 Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez at igalia.com> wrote:

> I have picked this message from Ryosuke because I want to explicitly address
> a misjudged metric on the effort it takes to address non-unified build issues
> after patches that break them have landed -- but my comments apply to the
> discussion in general.
> 
> On Wed, 01 Jun 2022 16:39:39 -0700 Ryosuke Niwa via webkit-dev <webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 16:10 Kirsling, Ross via webkit-dev <
> > webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org> wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > 
> > One day per month for one beginner sounds like a really low maintenance
> > cost compared to having every WebKit developer fix non-unified builds at
> > all times.
> 
> I have recorded at least 23 patches fixing non-unified builds in the last
> couple of weeks. Not all of them from Sony/Igalia folks. Assuming that each
> patch took around 1h to solve on average, this means we are investing a
> whopping *six days per month* fixing non-unified builds. Let me re-state
> that:
> 
>   We have collectively spent 1 out of every 4 weeks fixing build issues.

I forgot to add the list of patches I gathered. Here it is:

    https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3241
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3301
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3307
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3335
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3336
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3337
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3338
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3339
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3403
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3495
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3499
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3524
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3642
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3699
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3732
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3753
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3756
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3767
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3785
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3803
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3820
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3905
	https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3930

Cheers,
—Adrián
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