[webkit-dev] EFL port?

Tue Feb 14 12:51:08 PST 2017

> On Feb 14, 2017, at 3:08 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbieri at profusion.mobi> wrote:
> 
> yes,
> 
> Sad, but as no big company is using the webkit-efl port at the time,
> we have no (or few?) guys paid to hack on it full time.
> 
> My company is rather small, so we need backing customers to continue
> our work... like the current patchset to come.
> 
> Not ideal, but if we could at least keep WebKit-EFL build bots and try
> to keep them green would be of great help for smaller users like us.

Having to keep a port building when nobody is available to work on it exclusively adds a lot of burden. We’ve had other in similar positions removed simply so we could move WebKit forward.

Konstantin Tokarev maintains a Qt port at https://github.com/annulen/webkit <https://github.com/annulen/webkit> - sounds like you could do something like that.

- Anders

> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 1:01 AM, Gyuyoung Kim <gyuyoung.kim at webkit.org <mailto:gyuyoung.kim at webkit.org>> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I agree that we should have enough people to keep EFL port on upstream.
>> 
>> Unfortunately I guess there will be no enough people to maintain EFL port
>> even If I've done my internal work.
>> So, If other maintainers or volunteers put their hand up for EFL port, it
>> seems to me that EFL port has a time to go downstream.
>> 
>> Gyuyoung.
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 3:35 AM, Alex Christensen <achristensen at apple.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Are there enough people working on EFL that we could ping someone with a
>>> desired architecture improvement and have them do significant code redesign
>>> in a reasonable amount of time?  We can add stubs and do minor things
>>> blindly, but sometimes bigger tasks require cooperation.  For example,
>>> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167096 should also be done on the
>>> EFL WebGL implementation.
>>> 
>>> On Feb 13, 2017, at 3:08 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
>>> <barbieri at profusion.mobi> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi guys,
>>> 
>>> I have a small team working with WebKit-EFL as well, we're working on
>>> a different platform supported by EFL but not WebKit-EFL, so it's a
>>> series of minor patches to allow WebKit-EFL to run on Fbdev and
>>> without GL stack.
>>> 
>>> Patches will reach bugs.webkit.org soon.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:10 AM, Joonghun Park <sypjh0718 at hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi, Anders.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> You could count me as a member of EFL port too.
>>> 
>>> I couldn't get in touch with EFL port because of some internal works,
>>> 
>>> but I'm planning to work in it.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Some other people of EFL port is in the same situation, but I think
>>> they'll
>>> get back sooner or later.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> - Joonghun (jh718.park at samsung.com)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: webkit-dev-bounces at lists.webkit.org
>>> <webkit-dev-bounces at lists.webkit.org> on behalf of Anders Carlsson
>>> <andersca at apple.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 6:21 PM
>>> To: Gyuyoung Kim
>>> Cc: WebKit-Dev Development
>>> Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] EFL port?
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Are you the only one working on the EFL port?
>>> 
>>> - Anders
>>> 
>>> On Feb 10, 2017, at 1:40 AM, Gyuyoung Kim <gyuyoung.kim at webkit.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> To be honest, very few people have worked for EFL port recently. In my
>>> case
>>> it was hard to maintain EFL port because of internal work.
>>> However I have a plan to improve EFL port after I finish the work. Even I
>>> opened a website for EWebKit. http://www.ewebkit.org.
>>> Besides I released EWebKit 1.18 version[1] for EFL 1.18 official release.
>>> Could you give me more time for EFL port ?
>>> 
>>> Gyuyoung.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> [1] EWebKit 1.18 release announcement.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/efl_and_elementary_1_18_release_announcement/
>>> 
>>> EWebkit
>>> 
>>> Together with this release we are happy to announce that the EWebkit team
>>> is
>>> doing a
>>> release with their work matching the efl 1.18.
>>> It contains various webkit core as well as EWebkit specific enhancements.
>>> See the
>>> NEWS file for details and the http://www.ewebkit.org page for further
>>> instructions on
>>> building. We hope to keep future releases of EWebkit aligned with the EFL
>>> release schedule.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Anders Carlsson <andersca at apple.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> Looks like the EFL port isn’t really being worked on anymore. Is this
>>> true? Can we rip it out?
>>> 
>>> - Anders
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