> Keeping proposals and design documents private is essentially the same as making a project "source available".
Nah. There are plenty of contributors to V8 that are not part of Google. IBM and MIPS and ARM all contributed significantly to specific machine ports, and we had no trouble keeping them abreast of changes and plans. There are several people who have contributed from Igalia as well. And that's just the people I can think of.
It is harder to contribute to V8 than other open source projects. You have to accept a contributor agreement and use the Chromium code review tools. V8 is a big codebase and slow to build, but it's nothing like what you say.
Nah. There are plenty of contributors to V8 that are not part of Google. IBM and MIPS and ARM all contributed significantly to specific machine ports, and we had no trouble keeping them abreast of changes and plans. There are several people who have contributed from Igalia as well. And that's just the people I can think of.
It is harder to contribute to V8 than other open source projects. You have to accept a contributor agreement and use the Chromium code review tools. V8 is a big codebase and slow to build, but it's nothing like what you say.