[webkit-qt] kde-qt-webkit

[Dawit A]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Quim Gil <quim.gil at nokia.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> On 04/24/2012 05:09 PM, ext Andrea Diamantini wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I'm here to announce the will to work on an unofficial branch of
>> qtwebkit, living on gitorious as
>> https://gitorious.org/~adjam/**webkit/kde-qt-webkit<https://gitorious.org/~adjam/webkit/kde-qt-webkit>
>> .
>>
>> Given qtwebkit devs intention to no more develop the WebKit1 bits of the
>> qt port and considering the needs of kde webkit browsers (you may know
>> I'm just developing one), I decided to try working a bit on it with some
>> minimal targets.
>>
>
> If I understand this correctly, in Qt Project terminology you are saying
> that Qt WebKit Widgets (and add-on module at
> http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-**Add-ons-Modules<http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-Add-ons-Modules>) is currently unmaintained and you want to do something about this.
>
> Starting an unofficial branch might be a quick and good enough way for you
> to show your intentions with actual code and maintenance, but wouldn't the
> right way to do this that you & whoever is interested in this module take
> the maintenance itself? How to handle this in terms of WebKit & Qt Project
> reviewers/approvers/**maintainers?
>
> Simon Hausmann appears as the one and only "QtWebkit" maintainer at
> http://wiki.qt-project.org/**Maintainers<http://wiki.qt-project.org/Maintainers>but during the Qt 5 alpha development phase there was a split between "Qt
> Webkit" (based on WebKit2) and Qt Webkit Widgets. Is Qt WebKit Widget still
> under Simon's scope or is it effectively unmaintained now?
>
> For what is worth the KDE project is not the only one hoping to have Qt
> WebKit Widgets well maintained now and in the future. We are hearing many
> companies with the same concern. A KDE centric initiative is better than no
> initiative but of course the best approach would be a Qt Project
> initiative.  :)
>

To me the most worrisome part of it all is that even bugs that cause
crashes and are already fixed in the master branch do not seem to be back
ported into the stable version of QtWebKit. I am perfectly fine with the
decision to abandon the current API, but to not fix critical bugs in the
current stable release is just really bad or sad.

Looking at https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68616, critical bugs
that should have already been addressed for the 2.2 stable branches
(especially when there is a fix for them in the master branch) seem to be
languishing in obscurity.
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