Jonni, thank you for the clarification. As you suggested, it should clear up rumours and and at least provide some reassurance that events would at least be communicated. I appreciate your summary.
As I said before, projects come and go, code breaks etc. I've never had a problem with any of this, it was purely that lack of communication that really was bad. Cheers, Jack On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:19 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Yes, my organization is more familiar with QT-WebKit side, but I do have > some contacts on S60 WebKit people and have digged out some info > regarding S60WebKit. And I can comment on Jack's complaint that Nokia IS > aware of current problems of the S60WebKit port, and there is actions > started to rectify the situation on S60WebKit port. > > 1. I know that updated version of the S60WebKit port will be released > after the phone which uses newer version of the WebKit is released, this > will happen in this year. > 2&3. Will be corrected at the same time, and S60WebKit team will have > couple fulltime people maintaining released code line for the community. > 4&5. As I'm not member of S60WebKit team, I cannot officially > communicate that much on behalf of their team because I don't have that > clear picture of S60 side activities, but hopefully this email atleast > clears some of the rumours and misinformation that might be going > around. But I can say that we are aware of the situation, and hopefully > you will see better support in the future. > > Regards, Jonni > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ext Mark Rowe >>Sent: 14 August, 2008 12:23 >>To: Jack Wootton >>Cc: [email protected]; Rainisto Jonni (Nokia-D/Tampere) >>Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Request for comments >> >> >>On 2008-08-14, at 21:07, Jack Wootton wrote: >> >>> I hope this signals a better start for Nokia. Before Nokia >>can submit >>> anything back to the WebKit community they'll have to: >> >>[snip] >> >>Speaking as developer of WebKit, if Nokia wishes to resume >>contributing code to the WebKit project then they are free to >>do so, as are any other developers. I understand that you may >>be frustrated with how the S60 port has been handled, but I >>don't think that it helps the situation to claim that Nokia >>must do the things you list in order to continue contributing >>to WebKit. The work that Jonni is presenting appears to be >>based on the Qt WebKit port, which is completely distinct from >>the S60 code base, and has an active community maintaining it. >> >>Kind regards, >> >>Mark Rowe >> >> > -- Regards Jack _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
