WPT still has its own repo; the Servo repo just does an occasional bidirectional sync. The equivalent for rust-selectors would be if the rust-selectors repo was kept and just occasionally synced with Servo (like Servo is doing for M-C, anyway).
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 8:21 AM James Graham <ja...@hoppipolla.co.uk> wrote: > On 09/02/17 09:51, Anthony Ramine wrote: > > >> I haven't split it out yet, because I'm still hoping that the > >> outcome of this discussion is that I won't have to. The unified > >> code changes are in part 3 of > >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1336646 > > > > How does the discussion mean you don't have to split? All I see is > > three patches, none of them making it obvious how the selectors API > > changed. This also means that the commit messages will never ever be > > written from the POV of selectors, and always from the POV of servo, > > thus quite limiting any lingering hope to have external contributors > > now, given it will not be as discoverable as before what is happening > > in the crate at the commit level. > > > > In general, I posit that Mozilla completely, utterly, lost against V8 > > in the embedded department in a huge part because of this > > mono-repository thing where everything is muddled together. > > > > We can't quantify the missed opportunities when merging things > > together in a single repository. > > I don't really have any skin in this game, but I will note that the > web-platform-tests have been much more successful since we allowed > people to use them in the same repository as their browser code, even > though it does mean we get a lot of commits with useless commit messages > like "tests". So it's not always the case that the unquantifiable > benefits of multiple repositories always outweigh the unquantifiable > benefits of a single (from the point of view of a specific group of > developers working on a larger project) repository. > _______________________________________________ > dev-servo mailing list > dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo > _______________________________________________ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo
