[webkit-gtk] WebkitGTK+ LTS Release?

[Micah Gersten]

On 10/26/2011 02:07 PM, Xan wrote:
> 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...

Indeed, it's a daunting task.  Part of my concern is GTK3/Webkit2
migration that will most likely result in ABI and API
incompatibilities that will make migrating to a newer version harder
in a stable release.  Right now, for the most part, to migrate from
1.2.x to 1.6.x and I'm assuming 1.8.x, we just need a rebuild for the
ABI incompatibility (rename to webkitgtk).

>> 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

Well, I don't think I can do it all myself.  That's why I was
wondering if any other distributions have a need for this and would be
willing to help.

Thanks,
Micah