ron minnich wrote:
That sounds like upstream has failed completely.
there is a delta in time between when it is working in the chromium repo and it makes it to upstream.
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We've always had this situation. It's not new.
That just means that we haven't improved in a very long time. :\
It's just plain wrong to characterize this as a failure.
I disagree. I do think it means that the project isn't fitting its contributors so well. Note that I am explicitly not saying and not thinking that it is a failure of any contributor.
If the project could change to work somehow differently and that would help contributors then I think that's something we should consider identifying and doing.
It's a natural consequence of the fact that companies can't always immediately push all their work upstream.
What's the difference from Linux kernel development again?
Expecting anything else is unrealistic.
I don't think expectations are too usefule but I think it's what we should strive towards?
//Peter