= Fixing WebKit Development Annoyances =
''by Simon Fraser''

- `webkit-patch` etc
    - Run from any directory
    - Support for `webkit-patch upload —git-index`
    - `prepare-Changelog` should work from any directory
- IRC Bots
    - `> webkitbot: rollo0ut 235772: doesn’t build on non-cocoa platforms`
    - `< ‘webkitbot rollout’ failed with “Exception executing command: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte…`
- Bugzilla
    - Bulk-obsolete attachments (e.g. all the layout test failure archives)
    - Bulk marking of comments as obsolete
    - Show me a conflict one more time…
- Debugging
    - Every thing should be luggable
        - WebCore: `TextSTream& operator<<(TextStream& ts, …)`
        - JSC: `void dump(PrintStream&) const`
    - `LOG_WITHSTREAM(Channel, stream << … );`
    - Can’t WTFLogAlways() with a stream
    - More log channels!
        - (“I never know how to enable the log lines!”)
        - Need documentation on enabling login?
        - Make it easier to enable log channels and document them
- Debugging with lldb
    - We have formatters (with unit tests)
    - More lldb formatters please:
        - `unique_ptr<>`, `Ref<>`, `RefPtr<>`
        - `HashMap<>`/`HashSet<>`
    - Need a setup-my-machine-for-development, does setup that gives you all the debugging tools for development
- Debugging Tests
    - Can’t runtime-enable log channels in WTR/DRT
    - Can’t get stderr as it happens (only post-hot via `--debug-rwt-logging`)
    - Can’t easily attach to WTR or the WebProcess
    - (“I want a way to interactively write a layout test (Playgrounds for LayoutTests”)
- Test Expectations
    - Hard to maintain the 21 TestExpectations files
    - Hard to reason about the fallback path
- Test Results
    - Hard to create new baselines in the right directory
        - —new-baseline puts it in the most specific directory but that’s usually wrong
    - Easy to create redundant results (identical in > 1 directory)
        - Need a. Script to remove redundant results (diff and hoist them up)
- Commit Queue
    - Unattributed commits (at Apple)
    - 1630 unattributed commits in the past year (14%)
- Crowd Annoyances
    - “Get a bug in gmail, save webarchive, but too many scripts, just want a save the DOM and styles but skip scripts”
    - “ChangeLogs… why?”, “ChangeLog conflicts…”
    - “Unified build… want a non-unified build so I can find what changes”, “this is a growing problem, at least in WebCore”