On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Micah Gersten <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I work on the Ubuntu Security Team and WebkitGTK+ is one of the > things I look after. Ubuntu has an LTS release coming up in April with > 5 years of support on the desktop [1]. I was wondering if there would > be others interested in having a stable branch maintained for that > duration of time (possibly either 1.6.x or 1.8.x, I think we'd prefer > 1.8.x). I am willing to help with the patch backporting.
Five years is an inredibly long time to maintain a WebKit branch. Is there any precedent for that? After year two or three, I imagine that back-porting security fixes will become quite painful. That said, WebKit is a very open project. If someone is doing the legwork necessary to maintain a stable branch, I'm sure there are people around willing to help out with the releases, etc. In general stable releases are pretty easy to make. --Martin _______________________________________________ webkit-gtk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-gtk
