[webkit-gtk] WebkitGTK+ LTS Release?

[Martin Robinson]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Micah Gersten <micahg at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi, I work on the Ubuntu Security Team and WebkitGTK+ is one of the
> things I look after.  Ubuntu has an LTS release coming up in April with
> 5 years of support on the desktop [1].  I was wondering if there would
> be others interested in having a stable branch maintained for that
> duration of time (possibly either 1.6.x or 1.8.x, I think we'd prefer
> 1.8.x).  I am willing to help with the patch backporting.

Five years is an inredibly long time to maintain a WebKit branch. Is
there any precedent for that? After year two or three, I imagine that
back-porting security fixes will become quite painful.

That said, WebKit is a very open project. If someone is doing the
legwork necessary to maintain a stable branch, I'm sure there are
people around willing to help out with the releases, etc. In general
stable releases are pretty easy to make.

--Martin