[webkit-qt] Confused re release process

[Simon Hausmann]

On Wednesday, February 08, 2012 08:50:04 AM ext Alexis Menard wrote:
> 2012/2/8 Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru>:
> > 08.02.2012, 15:32, "Alexis Menard" <alexis.menard at openbossa.org>:
> >> 2012/2/8 Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru>:
> >>>  08.02.2012, 06:30, "Alexis Menard" <alexis.menard at openbossa.org>:
> >>>>  On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Lindsay Mathieson
> >>>> 
> >>>>  <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>   On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:34:44 PM you wrote:
> >>>>>>   Have been away for a few months dealing with issues - floods etc :(
> >>>>>> so a
> >>>>>>   little out of touch, please excuse my massive ignorance as to
> >>>>>>   the release process.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>>   Back in August last year I and others commit a inline spellchecking
> >>>>>> mod to webkit:
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>>   https://gitorious.org/+qtwebkit-developers/webkit/qtwebkit/blobs/qt
> >>>>>> webkit-2. 2/Source/WebKit/qt/Api/qwebkitplatformplugin.h
> >>>> 
> >>>>  It was too late to be able to make it for Qt 4.8 therefore QtWebKit
> >>>>  2.2. This is why nothing has change in Qt or KDE. I don't think we'll
> >>>>  have a new minor release of Qt 4 with QtWebKit so I don't think there
> >>>>  is a way for your patch to make its way to KDE for example. Unless
> >>>>  someone here step up to release a QtWebKit 2.3 with all the QA work it
> >>>>  requires then it could find its way as a separate release and add-on
> >>>>  of Qt 4.8.
> >>> 
> >>>  Wait... There won't be QtWebKit releases for Qt 4.x anymore? What a
> >>> pity!
> >> 
> >> Well unless someone would like to jump and doing it, I don't see how
> >> it would happen. QtWebKit team is very limited resources wise so...
> >> 
> >> I know what it is to make a QWebKit release as INdT did 2.2, it takes
> >> a while, time and people. We don't have that luxury yet as we have to
> >> make Qt5 WebKit to work.
> > 
> > AFAIK trunk still works with Qt 4.8. Are you planning to drop it before
> > making new release with Qt 5 support?
> 
> It works but not much is done on it (read QA testing...). We don't
> have any plan to drop Qt 4.8 support in trunk anytime soon but yes
> maybe at some point later we'll do it.

I agree with Alexis here.

I've had a chat with some Digia folks a few weeks ago and they have a 
naturally a continued interested in the Qt 4.8 series from a commercial 
perspective. Let's give those folks time to adjust to the WebKit climate, 
there's hope that they may be able to contribute to the 4.8 code line.


Simon