I also think it could be a good idea.
We have not integrated any work on new features yet, we are mostly working on 
stabilizing the tree. Others have also improved WebKit so a new branch could be 
worth it.

We could try it, branch when the bots are green, and compare reliability and 
performance between the two branches.
If we don't rebase, we should spend time to find all the important patches like 
the ones listed by Andreas.

cheers,
Benjamin
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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] 
On Behalf Of Kling Andreas (Nokia-D/Oslo)
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 8:14 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [webkit-qt] Rebasing QtWebKit 2.0 on current trunk?

Given the currently slipping schedules, should we perhaps consider rebasing 
QtWebKit 2.0 on current WebKit trunk?

Apple pushed some nice speed and memory improvements before releasing Safari 5 
and these could really benefit us, not to mention the 4 months of "regular" 
work that WebKit has had since we originally branched off.

Some examples:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35850
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38682
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39035
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39171
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39180
https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/59281
https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/60392

Yes, we could obviously cherry-pick these changes, but given the current 
timeframe, I personally think that rebasing (and re-entering stabilization 
mode) could be worthwhile.

Thoughts?

Kling
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