[webkit-qt] For WebKit2 developers - newer Qt5, bug fixing

[Alexis Menard]

On 30/09/2011, at 04:43, Osztrogonac Csaba <oszi at inf.u-szeged.hu> wrote:

> Dear QtWebKittens,

Yo

> 
> Yesterday evening we made the "x86-32 Linux Qt Release WebKit2" buildbot on
> http://build.webkit.sed.hu/waterfall?category=core use newer Qt5 revision
> (revision after Qt5 refactoring)
> 
> And then Tor Arne landed a buildfix for WebKit trunk: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/96345
> 
> Unfortunately with newer Qt there are 10605 new failing test. It is a _very very big_ number,
> approximately half of the tests. I skipped all of them not to kill the buildbot master.
> (Skip tests: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/96355)
> 
> But we should stop for a minute in this crazy developing race and make allowance for QA.

The crazy development race is more on Qt5 than WebKit. With the big beast landed in Qt5 it's more little things that should be changed in the future. For now since this merge we were just firefighting (build fixes, event delivery broken, ...). So yes we are trying to fix :). In the other hand with Qt5 new and QtWebKit2 don't expect high quality QA for now as we need to get major architectural changes in, API refactor, ... When Qt5 will enter in stabilization phase we can do so and then we can all focus on QA to get it in shape for a release.

> I filed a meta bug: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69104 . It would be great
> if we can fix these regressions _as soon as possible_ to hit the test coverage before
> Qt5 refactoring.

I haven't give a try myself as I work on my dev days presentation but what's wrong with those tests? Do you have an idea? With WebKit1 slowly phasing away we should all focus on WebKit2, WebKit1 trunk is something nobody uses.

> 
> br,
> Ossy
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