Upstreaming effort

[wychen]

It would be nice to keep the upstreaming effort to minimize the divergence.

For example, a file used in BSD is recently garbage collected because it cannot be reached from any GN files upstream. Ref: https://codereview.chromium.org/2876623002/

[jbeich]

Upstream "decided to not accept patches introducing *BSD support at this time".

[darkfiberiru]

@jbeich Thanks for the link. Does anyone see any sense in having the bsd's(free/open/net) and anyone else who needs it work on a centralized patched chrome tree? I know that a big question.

[davidchisnall]

I think there's a lot of value in having a Chromium repo that regularly merges from upstream and carries support for other platforms. Electron, for example, keeps getting requests to support more than the big three platforms and having a repo that they could use as their upstream, rather than requiring them to depend on Chromium + random patches for every other platform, would help.

[rene0]

Note that this repository is outdated, the current one is at https://github.com/freebsd/chromium.git