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List: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: Some news about the WebKit project
From: George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date: 2007-12-04 12:32:39
Message-ID: F10944FE-BE61-4BED-BDA9-77025398B212 () kde ! org
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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: <http://
> 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: <http://
> 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
>
>
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George Staikos
KDE Developer http://www.kde.org/
Staikos Computing Services Inc. http://www.staikos.net/
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