On 10/26/2011 02:07 PM, Xan wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Martin Robinson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > I agree, 5 years seems like a *really* long time to maintain a > WebKit branch. That being said...
Indeed, it's a daunting task. Part of my concern is GTK3/Webkit2 migration that will most likely result in ABI and API incompatibilities that will make migrating to a newer version harder in a stable release. Right now, for the most part, to migrate from 1.2.x to 1.6.x and I'm assuming 1.8.x, we just need a rebuild for the ABI incompatibility (rename to webkitgtk). >> 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. > > If you guys are going to do it anyway and are willing to do the > grunt work I think we'd be happy to help here and there as time > permits to make it easy for you, absolutely. > > Xan Well, I don't think I can do it all myself. That's why I was wondering if any other distributions have a need for this and would be willing to help. Thanks, Micah _______________________________________________ webkit-gtk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-gtk
