Tue 2012/Dec/11

• The WebKitGTK+ hackfest has been ongoing for the last three days in the Igalia offices in the not-that-rainy city of A Coruña. We're over twenty people here and we've been hacking, discussing, and ranting over whatnot -- all to make sure that your browsing experience in the forthcoming years will be better than it has ever been. Here's a brief summary of what's been going on hitherto:

  

  • Mario has been working on the insecure content API for WK2GTK.
  • Jon has been rocking in Epiphany by improving the creation of Web Applications by sniffing icons and application names and revamping our Find bar.
  • Carlos has been improving the DOM bindings to make them shareable between webkit1 and webkit2, adding WebKit API to set a SSL errors policy, and working in documents integration in Epiphany through libevince.
  • Diego has been working on the Web UI/UX from the distant Lima: Adding undo close tab (ctrl+shift+t) and preventing empty download-only (target=_blank) windows.
  • Xan has been reviewing patches like a madman, making EphySession suck less, and he even started implementing the first bits towards incognito browsing mode (for secure, ahem, netbanking.)
  • Martin has switched WKGTK+ to use Harfbuzz to render complex text and deleted the old Pango complex text backend. He also worked on adding authentication support to DRT and WTR.
  • Philippe has been porting the WebAudio backend to GStreamer 1.0.
  • Berto has been cleaning up the WebKit code and fixing WebAudio bugs.
  • Joone has been working on Accelerated Compositing with Clutter and fixing common bugs in EFL and GTK+ ports.
  • Gustavo has released WKGTK+ 1.10.2, packaged it and uploaded it to Debian along with Epiphany 3.6.1. He has also landed multipart/x-mixed-replace, reviewed a bunch of patches, and worked on improving how clicked links are opened in epiphany.
  • Dan has been stabilized the unstable libsoup APIs, and he is now debugging and unskipping HTTP tests.
  • Alex has been working in 2D-canvas accelerated support using cairo-gl and discussing with others threaded models for coordinated graphics.
  • Andy has been working hard on decreasing the world's entropy by decreasing V8's memory usage. He is also fighting Capitalism from within.
  • Xabier has been revamping the HTML5 media controls in WebKit and occasionally breaking the bots like a champ.
  • Žan has been working with Xabier in the media controls and has been also improving our testing infrastructure.
  • Simón has been improving the WK2GTK+ documentation.
  • Alejandro and Joanie have been working on decreasing the number of accessibility tests skipped/failing on the ATK implementation.
  • Claudio has been finishing the WK2GTK+ API for snapshotting, reviewing Epiphany patches, and testing the netbanking mode.

  

  There is, of course, much more going on and it's hard to keep track of the activity of these brave and energetic hackers. Yours truly has had a hard time distracting them from their relentless hacking in order to compile this report -- rest assured that there is probably much more happening between these four walls than what you have just read here. Nevertheless, we all want to thank the GNOME Foundation and all the sponsors who have made this gathering possible.

  

  

  

Syndicated 2012-12-11 12:38:00 from Claudio Saavedra's ChangeLog