[WebKit-devel] KWebKitPart is in extragear/base now; future plans

[Urs Wolfer]

On Saturday 13 February 2010 22:59:08 Dawit A wrote:
> On Saturday 13 February 2010 10:41:36 Urs Wolfer wrote:
> > Hi all!
> > 
> > Yeah, it's true! We are in extragear now.
> > 
> > playground/libs/webkitkde and kdereview/kwebkitpart are no more.
> > 
> > I already notified Albert to move the i18n stuff.
> > 
> > In the next days or week, I plan do the the first public release. I think
> > we should call it 0.9 for now. This release will also include
> > translations. With that step we should get more publicity and more
> > distributions will start providing packages. This means for us more
> > testing / feedback.
> > 
> > I also plan to put the release on kde-apps.org (also useful for the
> > .tar.gz download).
> 
> Great...Few questions about the release... do you plan to branch and tag
> any of the releases ? I know it is not a requirement for extragear, but I
> think we need some sort of branching and tagging to simplify the distro
> packagers life ? Do you also plan to label any release announcements as
> beta or rc until we get sufficient feedback to fix/address issues
> encountered from the larger testing ?

My plan was to start working with a stable branch when things are stable 
(==1.0.0). Until that point, we work in extragear, and create a release tag 
for each release. Not sure if we should append "beta" to the releases. 
Probably 0.9 says enough that it's not fully stable, though I'm not sure here.

> I also think it is time for us to establish kdewebkit specific irc channel,
> perhaps #kdewebkit ?? I am sure more and more applications will start using
> either kdewebkit and kwebkitpart once the stable releases come out and that
> warrants creation of a channel dedicated to discussing issues specific to
> kde webkit/webkitpart rather than using generic channels like #kde-devel
> which might be to noisy for this purpose...

Sure, great idea. Let's come online in #kdewebkit from now.

> One final note... The HTML5 <video> tag will not work for most, actually
> almost all, users because of the phonon packaging mess in Qt/KDE. The
> phonon version in Qt lags the one in kdesupport and does not contain the
> default xine backend required by KDE. As such most distros simply disable
> phonon support in Qt and use the one in KDE. Unfortunately, disabling
> phonon support in Qt means that QtWebKit will not support the HTML5 video
> tag. The worst part is that it seems the issue is only slated to be
> addressed with the future Qt 4.7 release. See
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34631 for the details. Anyways,
> you might want to mention this on the release notes so that we do not get
> too many duplicate bug reports about it.

Good point to mention.

Bye
urs
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