[webkit-gtk] WebkitGTK+ LTS Release?

[Xan]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Martin Robinson <mrobinson at webkit.org> wrote:
> 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.

I agree, 5 years seems like a *really* long time to maintain a WebKit
branch. That being said...

>
> 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.

If you guys are going to do it anyway and are willing to do the grunt
work I think we'd be happy to help here and there as time permits to
make it easy for you, absolutely.

Xan