[webkit-qt] QtWebKit-2.1 - almost there

[henry.haverinen at nokia.com]

Hey Alexis and Ademar,

It'd be great to have test suites and assets available for the community so people can test QtWebKit on their platforms and environments.

For QtWebKit 2.1, I think we need to be clear that it is _not_ an official product release from Qt, similarly to Qt 4.7 or Qt SDK releases are, with packages and support available, created through a high-profile technology preview-beta-RC process etc. It's an intermediate QtWebKit version, and the next officially supported QtWebKit release will be the release that we bundle with Qt 4.8.

We also need to be clear that we have mainly tested QtWebKit 2.1 on Symbian and Maemo.

Regards,
Henry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: webkit-qt-bounces at lists.webkit.org [mailto:webkit-qt-
> bounces at lists.webkit.org] On Behalf Of ext Ademar Reis
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 4:10 PM
> To: Menard Alexis (Nokia-MS-Qt/Oslo)
> Cc: webkit-qt at lists.webkit.org
> Subject: Re: [webkit-qt] QtWebKit-2.1 - almost there
> 
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:29 AM,  <alexis.menard at nokia.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Nov 23, 2010, at 24:01, ext Ademar Reis wrote:
> >
> >> Hi everybody.
> >>
> >
> > Hi Ademar,
> >
> 
> Hi Alexis!
> 
> 
> >> QtWebKit-2.1 has lots of enhancements, bugfixes and support for new
> >> web standards. A work-in-progress list of high-level changes together
> >> with a list of commits and bugs/tasks fixed since the fork from trunk
> >> is up on the wiki: http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/QtWebKitFeatures21
> >>
> >> We have a tight schedule and an RC should be available Real Soon
> >> Now(TM), :-) so don't waste any time, fire up your build tools, run a
> >> test on your environment and give us your feedback. We're particularly
> >> interested in any kind of regressions since qtwebkit-2.0 (which was
> >> released with Qt-4.7.0) or any major breakage. Feel free to share your
> >> thoughts or problems on this mailing list and on the #qtwebkit IRC
> >> channel @ freenode. Your feedback will be really appreciated.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately we couldn't provide pre-compiled binaries or packages at
> >> this time (we'll do better in future releases, I promisse) :-)
> >>
> >
> > I was wondering if us, QtWebKit Team, should define a small test plan of
> things to do before a release something like
> > - Build against current stable Qt run this and this demos based on QtWebKit
> > - Go to youtube.com test flash and html5 (when it will work :D)
> > - Go there and there (define problematic well know websites)
> > - Test webbrowser demo of QML
> > - Test the browser demo in Qt
> > - Go to a SSL website based login
> > - Test an well known hybrid app
> > ....
> >
> > Because the layouts tests are not everything.
> >
> > We can write it down to the wiki so it's easier for people to test the
> branch. And we can run those small manuals tests regularly like once every two
> weeks on the release branch
> > so that we can track down issue before the RC state for instance. (I mean
> lot of us tried the 2.1 but with the back-ports and stuff you never know). We
> can change who is doing the test plan every two weeks.
> > It won't take more than 30 minutes and I predict it will give lot of
> benefits for us like confidence for example.
> 
> 
> Yep, that's a good idea, we were really missing a public test plan
> (thanks for bringing this up!). I've created a page on the wiki with
> some instructions based on your suggestions:
> https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/QtWebKitTesting. I'll ask the Q&A guys to
> help us with a public test-plan and let's try to put in practice your
> idea of assigning some people to run the tests every two weeks or
> something.
> 
> BTW, if someone knows good websites to use in the tests (in
> particular, javascript and CSS intensive websites) or sites with
> online tests, please add links to the wiki (I'm sure there are several
> available and you guys should know the best ones).
> 
> Thanks!
>   - Ademar
> 
> 
> --
> Ademar de Souza Reis Jr. <ademar.reis at openbossa.org>
> OpenBossa Labs - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia
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