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Thursday, November 12, 2015
Encouraging More Open Source Contribution
(Potential) Problems
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Blink has better (JS) Dev tools than WebKit (perception)
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WebKit has few companies behind it
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Build time is too damn long
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Can't build iOS port and install on an iOS device
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Touch events not available on iOS port
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Review process is long & annoying
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Need to nag a reviewer
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Documentation for contributing a patch is scattered across places
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Lack of clarity on which kinds of tests to write
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Lack of documentations on different kinds of tests
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Number of kind of tests is too damn high
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Having to own a Mac to contribute easily raises the bar
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The number of programmers using WebKit is lower than those using Firefox / Chrome
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WebKit is not as relevant as it used to be due to Blink fork
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The time of fi x getting shipped in each browser is opaque
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Bugzilla is confusing
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Lack of component authorship in Bugzilla
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List of components in Bugzilla is outdated
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Nobody knows about EasyToFix keyword
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Need to create a Bugzilla account to fi le a bug
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WebKit has less evangelism than other browser engines
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WebKit checkout is too damn big
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Thursday, November 12, 2015
Ideas to improve open source contribution
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Servo has a great list of easy bugs to fi x
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Quick review
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Quick -r is better than no response
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Update watchlist
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Document watchlist
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Partner with new contributors
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Document how to contribute to JSC, WebCore, WebInspector, etc...
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Make it possible to download built products from
build.webkit.org
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Make JSC / WebInspector build-able on their own?
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Make it possible to checkout Source + tools to build WebKit without the full checkout?
Kind of contributions we like
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Yusuke has implemented a lot of ES6 features because he was interested in ES6
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Another person who was interested in internationalization feature added those
features
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They both had a mentor who helped them bootstrap
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Another OS contributor works on Windows, and reviewing patches quickly really
encouraged his contribution
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GTK+ had a much better desktop integration, and that encouraged OS contribution
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Added a new API to GTK+ port
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Some OS contributors got interested in blog posts, and started contributing
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Negative press on IndexedDB resulted in patches being submitted to those bugs
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Really good bug reports came out of ranting blog posts
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