[webkit-qt] [announce] QtWebKit 2.2 tp1

[Ademar Reis]

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Alexis Menard
<alexis.menard at openbossa.org> wrote:
> Well before tagging the TP I wanted to make sure it compiles and
> supported platforms :D.
>

Well, it builds on the bots. :-)

> Did you tag?
>

Nope, but that was mostly because I had to leave in a hurry. I think
it makes sense to tag our first try, so I've just tagged it now as
qtwebkit-2.2-first-branch-try.

> If not perfect, we can checkout the branch make the build fixes if
> needed and tag :D.

Yep, that's the idea. The branch is there, but it may move to a more
recent trunk revision later this week. This step is important because
the branch is necessary for the setup of build-bots and internal
builds by Q&A teams.

But I see your point, you prefer to have it "officially" called tp1
once it has been tested at least internally. OK, makes sense.

So we'll wait a bit more before calling it our first tp1.

>
> Any feedback?
>
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Ademar Reis <ademar.reis at openbossa.org> wrote:
>> Hi everybody.
>>
>> Today we created an experimental branch from trunk which we plan to
>> use as the base for QtWebKit-2.2. We're declaring it our first TP
>> (technology preview).
>>
>> As some of you may already know, QtWebKit-2.2 will be supported on all
>> Qt platforms and is planned for the end of this semester (in 2-3
>> months from now). It's a fresh branch from trunk, so it includes a lot
>> of new features and developments, accumulated for about a year since
>> the last releases were branched (2.0 and 2.1 were branched 15 and 11
>> months ago, respectively).
>>
>> We want QtWebKit-2.2 to be our best release ever and to reach that
>> goal we need contributions and feedback from all the community.
>> Feedback on different platforms and build scenarios are particularly
>> welcome.
>>
>> Later this week we'll share more of the roadmap for QtWebKit-2.2. We
>> plan to have one more TP and a couple of betas before we declare it a
>> RC. To reach beta status, we need it building and passing basic tests
>> on all platforms.
>>
>> The branch is on gitorious, as usual:
>> https://gitorious.org/+qtwebkit-developers/webkit/qtwebkit
>> WARNING: I had to leave the office and let the git push running... It
>> should be up in one hour, hopefully ;-)
>>
>> The SVN revision is 85508.
>>
>> Information about the 2.2 release(s) will be in this wiki page:
>> http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/QtWebKitRelease22
>>
>> Build and test instructions are also available, please check our main wiki:
>> http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/QtWebKit
>>
>> Finally, please consider this branch experimental and have in mind
>> that we're branching to prepare our build/test environment, but this
>> branch may, later this week, move forward (as in git merge <some later
>> trunk revision>). It'll depend on the test results and what happens on
>> trunk. We'll let you know, naturally.
>>
>> Happy hacking and testing. :-)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   - Ademar
>>
>> --
>> Ademar de Souza Reis Jr. <ademar.reis at openbossa.org>
>> OpenBossa - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia


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Ademar de Souza Reis Jr. <ademar.reis at openbossa.org>
OpenBossa - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia