Happy Birthday qutebrowser, you just keep getting better!
On 14.12.18 08:38, Florian Bruhin wrote: > 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 > -- Michael GPG PubKey: https://www.vigovproductions.net/pubkey.asc (Fingerprint: FAFA F12C 4440 460A 89D0 A67F 8D31 13F7 D36F 833C)
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