[webkit-dev] Changes in QtWebKit development

[Brent Fulgham]

On Sep 13, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Benjamin Poulain <benjamin at webkit.org> wrote:

> On 9/13/13, 4:50 AM, Albisser Zeno wrote:
>> As many of you have probably noticed already, we have recently been focusing on a project called Qt WebEngine. Our WebKit efforts have therefore been reduced significantly over the past weeks.
>> While we will keep shipping QtWebKit with Qt for the foreseeable future, we want to concentrate our efforts on Qt WebEngine.
>> Therefore we are planning some changes to our development setup. In particular we are planning to remove our QtWebKit/Mac and QtWebKit/Windows builds from WebKit trunk. We will keep maintaining these platforms in a separate branch through the Qt project’s gerrit infrastructure.
>> This essentially means our presence in trunk will be reduced to QtWebKit/Linux.
>> 
>> We are planning to gradually implement the required changes within the next month.
>> If this proves to bring significant issues for some development, please do let us know and we can sort out a way to work together on a phase-out process.
> This is sad.
> 
> When "modules" of Qt are put on "maintenance", it is basically a synonym to "it's unmaintained, just let it die". I am very unexcited about having one of those in the tree along the live development from everyone else.
> It is unfair for all the ports who put real efforts in the WebKit opensource project.
> 
> Realistically, how much development will go in QtWebKit/Linux? Why does it stay in WebKit trunk if the two other ports are "maintained" in a branch?

Why don’t they create a WebKit branch and label it as their maintenance branch, and then we can purge the Qt stuff to lighten the size of the LayoutTests repository.

I don’t see much benefit in keeping the code in place if their plan is to be gone shortly.

-Brent

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