Congrats! It's awesome to see how much qutebrowser has developed over the years! A project to be proud of. :)
Le December 14, 2018 8:38:05 AM UTC, Florian Bruhin <[email protected]> a écrit : >Heya! > >5 years ago today, this happened: > > commit 11a94957dc038fc27c5ff976197ad2b2d0352d20 > Author: Florian Bruhin <[email protected]> > Date: Sat Dec 14 22:15:16 2013 +0100 > > Initial commit > >That's how qutebrowser looked a day after that (and that commit still >seems to run!): https://imgur.com/a/xoG1r4G > >Exactly a year later, things were finally ready for a v0.1 release, >after spending two weeks of holidays with fixing bugs. > >Originally, qutebrowser was born because the dwb project was >discontinued: https://portix.bitbucket.io/dwb/ > >That's what I (and many others) were using at the time, and all >alternatives were stuck with an unmaintained WebKit1. Since everything >was using WebKitGTK which was horribly buggy (and WebKit2 in WebKitGTK >lacked a lot of basic features), I decided to start my own thing, based >on Qt instead. > >Back then, there were already discussions about QtWebEngine, and I >originally wondered whether I should just wait with starting >qutebrowser >until it's ready. QtWebEngine support was finally added in July 2016, a >lot later than I imagined. Initially, many features didn't work yet, >but >in September 2017 it finally became the default backend. > >Later, it turned out that qutebrowser also was a viable alternative for >many Pentadactyl/Vimperator refugees, and qutebrowser got more popular >than I ever imagined. > >So far, there have been: > >- 17,227 commits >- 3,193 issues >- 1,273 pull requests >- 242 contributors >- 47 releases >- 2 crowdfundings >- dozens of t-shirts >- thousands of stickers > >Thanks a lot to the whole community - y'all are awesome! I never >imagined I would be working on this for so long, or that it'd gain so >much traction. I also didn't believe the crowdfunding thing would work. >You showed me otherwise \o/ > >Some 3-4 years ago, I noticed there were a couple of big things I'll be >busy with for a while: > >- Adding a testsuite because things broke a lot >- QtWebEngine >- The new config system >- An extension API > >I'm currently working on the fourth one. Not many new very big tasks >have appeared (except maybe a testsuite which isn't as unreliable and >slow, and some refactorings to keep my sanity when working on the >code). > >I'm really looking forward to the point where I can work on smaller >things (and new features) again - for a long time, most of my time was >spent reviewing contributions, fixing bugs, putting out fires with Qt >upgrades, and working on those four major things. > >Florian > >-- >https://www.qutebrowser.org | [email protected] (Mail/XMPP) > GPG: 916E B0C8 FD55 A072 | https://the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc > I love long mails! | https://email.is-not-s.ms/ -- Envoyé de mon appareil Android avec Courriel K-9 Mail. Veuillez excuser ma brièveté.
