wiki:April 2011 Meeting

This is an unofficial page for the 2011 WebKit Contributors Meeting held from April 25th through April 26th.

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Please add your suggested talks to the list below. We'll lay out the schedule for the conference on Monday.

Proposed Talks / Discussions (host) [would attend!]

  • Unifying the build system (abarth) [ddkilzer, dpranke, ojan, torarne, estes, eseidel, demarchi, jturcotte, aroben, lgombos] {High}
  • WebKit2 - One year later (weinig) [kling, mms, enrica, yael, noamr, torarne, estes, alexg, demarchi, jturcotte, philn, aroben, lgombos, kenneth, joone] {Medium-High}
  • Common thread patterns in WebKit (levin) [mjs, dimich, aroben, lgombos] {Medium-High}
  • Removing or rejecting features - is there a way for the WebKit project to say no to things? (mjs) [weinig, abarth, levin, morrita, dpranke, ojan, sjl, noamr, kling, torarne, dimich, lgombos] {Medium-High}
  • Advanced tool usage (webkit-patch, commit-queue, ews-bots, sheriff-bot, re-baseline tool, new-run-webkit-test, reviewtool, etc.) (eseidel) [mjs, dpranke, ojan, sjl, yael, estes, alexg, jparent, philn, aroben, inferno-sec, lgombos, hayato] {Medium}
  • Redesign of Position-related classes (rniwa) [leviw, enrica, eae] {Medium}
  • Add a way to RenderObject destruction (aka add RenderObject guard) (rniwa) [dglazkov, eseidel, inferno-sec] {Medium}
  • Shadow DOM and the component model (dglazkov and friends) [rniwa, leviw, mjs, enrica, dbates, dpranke, sjl, yael, jparent, eseidel, inferno-sec, kenneth] {Medium}
  • Hardware acceleration roundup, what do we share? what can we share? (noamr) [sjl, torarne, alexg, jturcotte, aroben, lgombos, smfr, joone] {Medium}
  • Getting layout test times under control, getting new-run-webkit-tests working for everyone? (geoffrey garen/dpranke) [] {Medium}
  • Strategies for decreasing the number/frequency/duration of test failures (aroben) [lgombos, eseidel, levin] {Medium}
  • HTML5 parser (eseidel, abarth) [mjs, estes, demarchi, inferno-sec] {Medium}
  • Sharing LayoutTestController Code? (morrita) [] {Medium-Low}
  • Understanding line-layout (bidi, line-box tree, etc.) (eseidel) [rniwa, dbates, morrita, ojan, yael, alexg, jparent, dimich, demarchi, inferno-sec, eae] {Medium-Low}
  • Media elements using the WebKit loader (scherkus) [] {Medium-Low}
  • Reducing checkout/update times, reducing layout test result churn () [] {Medium-Low}
  • Switching layout offsets to floats from ints (leviw) [dglazkov, ojan, eseidel, inferno-sec, eae] {Low}
  • Improving the verbosity of the editing markup (enrica) [rniwa] {Low}
  • MathML update (alex milowski) [] {Low}
  • Media element pseudo classes (eric) [] {Low}
  • New CSS positioning modes, eg. flex, grid () [] {Low}
  • Coming together on threading patterns for speed optimizations (ap?) [] {Low}
  • Updates on the grand loader fix, including plugins () [] {Low}
  • Sharing more code between WebKit1 and WebKit2 () [] {Low}
  • Overview of adding a new Element subclass () [] {Two}
  • LayoutTestAnalyzer, what is it? () [] {Low}
  • Gardening and keeping the bots green () [] {Low}
  • Adding multi-threaded code to WebKit, strategies (jchaffraix) {Low}
  • Advanced text layout (vertical text, ruby, etc) () [mjs, eseidel] {Double}
  • XML Processor Profiles (W3C LC Draft) and WebKit (alex milowski) [] {Single}
  • Getting more ports to enable pixel tests on bots, and making them less brittle () [] {Silence}

Proposed Hackathons (host) [would attend!]

  • EventHandler cleanup (rniwa) [dglazkov, weinig, ojan, sjl, yael, demarchi, kenneth] {Medium-Low}
  • Fuzz-a-thon - run fuzzers, find bugs, fix them () [mjs, inferno-sec] {Medium-Low}
  • Converting more rendertree/manual tests to dumpAsText/dumpAsMarkup () [] {Medium-Low}
  • Review-a-thon! Get as many patches out of webkit.org/pending-review as possible (eseidel) [mjs, abarth, levin, ojan, weinig, kling, aroben] {Medium-Low}
  • Flip on strict mode for smart pointers () [] {Medium-Low}
  • Component model API brainstorming (dglazkov) [weinig, lgombos, kenneth] {Low}
  • Hacking webkitpy/bugzilla for fun and profit. Tour all the tool code? Write our own sheriff-bot command? (eseidel) [levin, ojan, jparent, abarth, philn, aroben] {Low}
  • KURL unforking revisited (mjs) [abarth, weinig] {Low}
  • Finish bust'n up the Frame class cluster, and other big classes () [] {Low}
  • Splitting JSC into its own library for GTK () [] {Low}
  • Moving another port to GYP () [] {Low}
  • Splitting WTF out of JavaScriptCore () [] {Low}
  • Hacking check-webkit-style so you never have to flag the issue in a review again. (levin) {Double}
  • TextInputTestSuite—improving the coverage of editing in input type=text, search, etc. and textarea [rniwa, enrica, xji, yael, morrita, dglazkov]

Time Blocks

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Attendee

  • adambe
  • adamk
  • adele
  • alexg
  • alexmilowski
  • amruthraj
  • antonm
  • aroben
  • benjaminp
  • bdath
  • bweinstein
  • caseq
  • cmumford
  • cshu
  • darin
  • darktears
  • dave_levin
  • ddkilzer
  • demarchi
  • dethbakin
  • dglazkov
  • dgrogan
  • dimich
  • dominicc
  • dpranke
  • enne
  • enrica
  • eric_carlson
  • ericu
  • eseidel
  • estes
  • fishd
  • geoff-
  • ggaren
  • gyuyoung
  • hayato
  • honten
  • inferno-sec
  • jamesr
  • japhet
  • jeffm7
  • jennb
  • jhoneycutt
  • jianli
  • jonlee
  • joone
  • jparent
  • jschuh
  • jturcott
  • kbr_google
  • keishi
  • kenne, kenneth
  • kinuko
  • kling
  • krit
  • lca
  • leviw
  • lgombos
  • loislo
  • makulkar, maheshk
  • mihaip
  • mitzpettel
  • morrita
  • mrobinson
  • msaboff
  • msanchez
  • noamr
  • othermaciej
  • ojan
  • pererik
  • pewtermoose (mlilek)
  • pnormand
  • prasadt
  • psolanki
  • rafaelw
  • rniwa
  • rolandsteiner
  • smfr
  • svillar
  • thakis
  • tkent
  • tonikitoo,agomes,antonio
  • tony^work
  • torarne
  • toyoshim
  • tronical
  • weinig
  • xan
  • yael
  • yutak
  • yuzo
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