Discussion notes

• Accelerated rendering and compositing
• ​Instrumentation and Metrics
• April 2012 MeetingRethinkingRendering
• ​Canvas canvas

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

• Writing your own RenderObject (eric) [dbarton, rniwa, leviw, eae, jchaffraix, torarne, dbates]
• 2-Minute Overview of Each Component []
• Perf-o-matic and performance tests (rniwa) [tomz, dtharp, jacobg, enne, kov, kseo] ​slides
• What type of benchmarks do we need in WebKit? (rniwa) [morrita, kseo]
• Instrumentation and metrics collection [morrita, jchaffraix, zherczeg, tomz, eae, kov, kseo]
• Reducing our number of "supported" build systems from 7 to fewer-than-7 (eric) [torarne]
• Introduction to new CSS layout modes (maybe ojan/tony^work/TabAtkins/mihnea ?) [rniwa, hober, astearns, nov, dbates]
• Better documenting status of new features [rniwa, hober]
• Rethinking the rendering architecture: RenderLayer, RenderObject hierarchy, ... (jchaffraix) [eae, enne, kov, dbarton, huangdongsung]
• Revisiting the convention and the process to import third-party (e.g. W3C) tests (jacobg/astearns) - Thu 1:45-2:45pm [rniwa, tomz, dtharp, dbarton, hober] ​slides
• Indexed Database discussion - interest from other ports?, overview of implementation, roadmap (jsbell) []
• Canvas accessibility - how to implement latest whatwg additions like focusable fallback content, hit testing, ... (dmazzoni) [hober]
• Ninja build system: ​ninja is a new fast build system that builds the chromium/mac port 6x as fast as xcodebuild and the chromium/linux port 2x as fast as make. There are ninja backends for cmake and gyp. If there's interest, I can give a short overview/demo of ninja (thakis) []
• Web Components: progress update (dglazkov) [dominicc] Notes: ​https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebComponentsStatusMeetingNotes
• Explain accelerated compositing (smfr) []
• Add topics here!

Proposed Hackathons (host) [would attend!]

• Add performance tests (rniwa) [kseo]
• Stabilize performance tests (rniwa; needs to be on 20th as we need a bunch of clean machines) [kseo]
• Import/sync with w3c test suites (jacobg) [rniwa, astearns]
• Reviewathon 2012! (eric?) [rniwa, jchaffraix, kov]
• Move methods from layoutTestController and friends to internals (morrita/dglazkov?) [rniwa, enne]
• Add features to / fix bugs with garden-o-matic, flakiness dashboard, run-webkit-tests, etc. (ojan) []
• Work through shadow DOM design issues (dglazkov) [dominicc]
• Add more hackathon ideas here!

Time Blocks

​https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak3cRcJYT0VmdEY0THJVUkp2bllYSGxSTlpxSm9PLXc

Attendee

• Dominic Cooney (​dominicc@chromium.org)