From kfm-devel Tue Dec 04 12:32:39 2007 From: George Staikos Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:32:39 +0000 To: kfm-devel Subject: Re: Some news about the WebKit project Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=119677231018314 Thanks for the note, Maciej. It's really great to see WebKit moving in this direction. I think it will be a great step forward for the community around WebKit and I hope that this also helps build support for the WebKit KPart! On 30-Nov-07, at 8:11 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > 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: webkit.org/blog/146/new-open-committer-and-reviewer-policy/>. 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: webkit.org/projects/goals.html>. 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 > > -- George Staikos KDE Developer http://www.kde.org/ Staikos Computing Services Inc. http://www.staikos.net/