[webkit-qt] Rebasing QtWebKit 2.0 on current trunk?

[Kenneth Christiansen]

The Symbian guys seems most affected by changes and it often breaks
something for them. We could let them compare the next release of
qtwebkit2.0 and trunk and if trunk is stable enough for them, we could
decide to redo our qtwebkit2.0 branch.

I'm OK with that, but we need to make sure that the people testing
Symbian and Web Runtime are OK with that.

Kenneth

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 7:34 PM,  <benjamin.poulain at nokia.com> wrote:
> I also think it could be a good idea.
> We have not integrated any work on new features yet, we are mostly working on stabilizing the tree. Others have also improved WebKit so a new branch could be worth it.
>
> We could try it, branch when the bots are green, and compare reliability and performance between the two branches.
> If we don't rebase, we should spend time to find all the important patches like the ones listed by Andreas.
>
> cheers,
> Benjamin
> ________________________________________
> From: webkit-qt-bounces at lists.webkit.org [webkit-qt-bounces at lists.webkit.org] On Behalf Of Kling Andreas (Nokia-D/Oslo)
> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 8:14 PM
> To: webkit-qt at lists.webkit.org
> Subject: [webkit-qt] Rebasing QtWebKit 2.0 on current trunk?
>
> Given the currently slipping schedules, should we perhaps consider rebasing QtWebKit 2.0 on current WebKit trunk?
>
> Apple pushed some nice speed and memory improvements before releasing Safari 5 and these could really benefit us, not to mention the 4 months of "regular" work that WebKit has had since we originally branched off.
>
> Some examples:
>
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35850
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38682
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39035
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39171
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39180
> https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/59281
> https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/60392
>
> Yes, we could obviously cherry-pick these changes, but given the current timeframe, I personally think that rebasing (and re-entering stabilization mode) could be worthwhile.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Kling
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Kenneth Rohde Christiansen
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