Preparing for WebKit 1.0.2

[Alp Toker]

Hi,

Just a heads up that we're going to start preparing for the 1.0.2 release,
the second official release of WebKit (GTK+ port) in the next few days.

Some notes about this release:

1) Will be branched off SVN trunk with as few modifications as possible.
2) Should be built with the default HTTP and font backends (CURL and
FreeType, not libsoup and not Pango).
3) Will be the first release to be provided as a conventional GNU tarball
with make dist.

The API should have additions only and the ABI should not have been broken
since 1.0.1. We need some help from the packaging team to:

1) Confirm API/ABI stability and ensure that there are no regressions in
applications and language bindings (C#, Python, perl?) building against
libwebkit-1.0 in Debian.

2) Confirm that 'make dist' produces complete tarballs with everything
needed by distributions (both in terms of sources to build successfully and
copyright licenses).

3) Ensure that it builds and works on all supported architectures and with
the latest toolchain. If there are any build fixes required for any CPU
architectures or the latest binutils/gcc, we'd like to merge these patches
upstream _before_ branching. This includes determining if the Debian fixes
for 1.0.1 (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20662) are still relevant
to 1.0.2 and if any new fixes are required.

4) Let us know of any major bugs reported in the WebKit packages themselves
or in applications so we can make a last minute attempt to fix them.

There are fixes going into webkit.org SVN trunk daily so remember to test
with a current revision.

Looking forward to hearing back soon so we can get out a fantastic 1.0.2
complete with some high-quality un-patched packages in Debian.

Cheers!
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