[WebKit-devel] Release KWebKitPart 0.9?

[Urs Wolfer]

On Sunday 28 February 2010 16:55:58 Dawit A wrote:
> On Sunday 28 February 2010 10:09:14 Urs Wolfer wrote:
> > Do you think KWebKitPart is ready for the first public "preview" release?
> > I would say yes after testing the current state a bit.
> 
> See below...
> 
> > I suggest to release 0.9 packaged with KDE/kdesdk/scripts/createtarball
> > together with it's translations. As I have written before, I will put the
> > release up to kde-apps.org to get a bit of publicity and testing.
> > 
> > At the moment I see no need for a branch nor a tag (I have not read yet
> > how to tag extragear projects yet).
> 
> Well the problem with that is people with the current stable release of KDE
> would not be able to compile kwebkitpart if we add new features upstream in
> the kdewebkit for KDE 4.5 or even a future 4.4.x release (which there
> surely will be) and start using those new features in kwebkitpart.

We have to add #IF KDE VERSION checks if we use new kdelibs features.

> > Any objections or comments?
> 
> Personally I think we should wait until 4.4.1 is released and do it after
> that release. There were a couple of important fixes that went into the
> upstream libraries that will be released with 4.4.1 ; so I suggest you
> wait and perhaps encourage/mandate the use of 4.4.1 with kwebkitpart.

Fine for me.

> P.S. I have added an ISSUES file in kdelibs/kdewebkit to keep track of the
> known bugs and problems in the upstream libraries.  There is also a TODO
> list in extragear/base/kwebkitpart. You might find those useful when
> writing a release note...

Yes, thanks for the note.

Anyway, I will write in the release notes that it's "just" a preview release 
which is not meant for production yet.

Bye
urs
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