[webkit-gtk] Deciding the deprecation path for WebKit1

Martin Robinson mrobinson at webkit.org
Wed Mar 19 07:45:38 PDT 2014


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Carlos Garcia Campos
<cgarcia at igalia.com> wrote:
> My main concern is that maintaining WebKit1 in a different branch is
> more work in the end. I'm fine if we disable wk1 by default in trunk and
> switch all bots to use wk2 only. But once we remove the code from trunk,
> we won't maintain it anymore, people using wk1 should keep using older
> WebKitGTK+ versions.

I'm imagining it simply as a 6 month extension of the stable branch.
We've had success maintaining stable branches for quite a while.

--Martin


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