From kfm-devel Sat Dec 01 01:11:19 2007 From: Maciej Stachowiak Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:11:19 +0000 To: kfm-devel Subject: Some news about the WebKit project Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=119647153309904 Hello KHTML developers and other KDE contributors, There has been some debate recently in the KDE community about whether to adopt WebKit (historically evolved from KDE projects such as khtml, kjs, kdom and ksvg2) as the Web rendering engine for future versions of KDE. Many KHTML developers have raised concerns about project governance, potentially conflicting goals, and the appearance that WebKit is driven purely by Apple's corporate agenda. Today we announced a new open, equitable, community-based policy for choosing future WebKit committers and reviewers: . This policy should make clear that anyone can get involved in the project on a fair and equal basis. Also, we recently adopted a set of overall project goals: . We believe that these goals are in line with KDE's desired direction for a Web rendering engine. Given this, I think the possibilities for fruitful collaboration are good. I don't know if this addresses all KHTML and KDE contributor concerns about the possibility of a full re-merge with WebKit. But I hope these moves will make a good starting point for additional discussion. I am open to additional discussion about ways to enable closer collaboration. Regards, Maciej