From me at the-compiler.org  Fri Dec 14 09:38:05 2018
From: me at the-compiler.org (Florian Bruhin)
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 09:38:05 +0100
Subject: [qutebrowser] Happy birthday, qutebrowser!
Message-ID: <20181214083805.a66z23gfc6a6bmet@hooch.localdomain>

Heya!

5 years ago today, this happened:

  commit 11a94957dc038fc27c5ff976197ad2b2d0352d20
  Author: Florian Bruhin <git at the-compiler.org>
  Date:   Sat Dec 14 22:15:16 2013 +0100
  
      Initial commit

That's how qutebrowser looked a day after that (and that commit still
seems to run!): https://imgur.com/a/xoG1r4G

Exactly a year later, things were finally ready for a v0.1 release,
after spending two weeks of holidays with fixing bugs.

Originally, qutebrowser was born because the dwb project was
discontinued: https://portix.bitbucket.io/dwb/

That's what I (and many others) were using at the time, and all
alternatives were stuck with an unmaintained WebKit1. Since everything
was using WebKitGTK which was horribly buggy (and WebKit2 in WebKitGTK
lacked a lot of basic features), I decided to start my own thing, based
on Qt instead.

Back then, there were already discussions about QtWebEngine, and I
originally wondered whether I should just wait with starting qutebrowser
until it's ready. QtWebEngine support was finally added in July 2016, a
lot later than I imagined. Initially, many features didn't work yet, but
in September 2017 it finally became the default backend.

Later, it turned out that qutebrowser also was a viable alternative for
many Pentadactyl/Vimperator refugees, and qutebrowser got more popular
than I ever imagined.

So far, there have been:

- 17,227 commits
-  3,193 issues
-  1,273 pull requests
-    242 contributors
-     47 releases
-      2 crowdfundings
- dozens of t-shirts
- thousands of stickers

Thanks a lot to the whole community - y'all are awesome! I never
imagined I would be working on this for so long, or that it'd gain so
much traction. I also didn't believe the crowdfunding thing would work.
You showed me otherwise \o/

Some 3-4 years ago, I noticed there were a couple of big things I'll be
busy with for a while:

- Adding a testsuite because things broke a lot
- QtWebEngine
- The new config system
- An extension API

I'm currently working on the fourth one. Not many new very big tasks
have appeared (except maybe a testsuite which isn't as unreliable and
slow, and some refactorings to keep my sanity when working on the code).

I'm really looking forward to the point where I can work on smaller
things (and new features) again - for a long time, most of my time was
spent reviewing contributions, fixing bugs, putting out fires with Qt
upgrades, and working on those four major things.

Florian

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From samuel at swalladge.id.au  Fri Dec 14 09:56:55 2018
From: samuel at swalladge.id.au (Samuel Walladge)
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 08:56:55 +0000
Subject: [qutebrowser] Happy birthday, qutebrowser!
In-Reply-To: <20181214083805.a66z23gfc6a6bmet@hooch.localdomain>
References: <20181214083805.a66z23gfc6a6bmet@hooch.localdomain>
Message-ID: <9C6C1EB7-2671-4D8B-AB6A-08C0FBE28E5D@swalladge.id.au>

Congrats! It's awesome to see how much qutebrowser has developed over the years! A project to be proud of. :)


Le December 14, 2018 8:38:05 AM UTC, Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> a ?crit :
>Heya!
>
>5 years ago today, this happened:
>
>  commit 11a94957dc038fc27c5ff976197ad2b2d0352d20
>  Author: Florian Bruhin <git at the-compiler.org>
>  Date:   Sat Dec 14 22:15:16 2013 +0100
>  
>      Initial commit
>
>That's how qutebrowser looked a day after that (and that commit still
>seems to run!): https://imgur.com/a/xoG1r4G
>
>Exactly a year later, things were finally ready for a v0.1 release,
>after spending two weeks of holidays with fixing bugs.
>
>Originally, qutebrowser was born because the dwb project was
>discontinued: https://portix.bitbucket.io/dwb/
>
>That's what I (and many others) were using at the time, and all
>alternatives were stuck with an unmaintained WebKit1. Since everything
>was using WebKitGTK which was horribly buggy (and WebKit2 in WebKitGTK
>lacked a lot of basic features), I decided to start my own thing, based
>on Qt instead.
>
>Back then, there were already discussions about QtWebEngine, and I
>originally wondered whether I should just wait with starting
>qutebrowser
>until it's ready. QtWebEngine support was finally added in July 2016, a
>lot later than I imagined. Initially, many features didn't work yet,
>but
>in September 2017 it finally became the default backend.
>
>Later, it turned out that qutebrowser also was a viable alternative for
>many Pentadactyl/Vimperator refugees, and qutebrowser got more popular
>than I ever imagined.
>
>So far, there have been:
>
>- 17,227 commits
>-  3,193 issues
>-  1,273 pull requests
>-    242 contributors
>-     47 releases
>-      2 crowdfundings
>- dozens of t-shirts
>- thousands of stickers
>
>Thanks a lot to the whole community - y'all are awesome! I never
>imagined I would be working on this for so long, or that it'd gain so
>much traction. I also didn't believe the crowdfunding thing would work.
>You showed me otherwise \o/
>
>Some 3-4 years ago, I noticed there were a couple of big things I'll be
>busy with for a while:
>
>- Adding a testsuite because things broke a lot
>- QtWebEngine
>- The new config system
>- An extension API
>
>I'm currently working on the fourth one. Not many new very big tasks
>have appeared (except maybe a testsuite which isn't as unreliable and
>slow, and some refactorings to keep my sanity when working on the
>code).
>
>I'm really looking forward to the point where I can work on smaller
>things (and new features) again - for a long time, most of my time was
>spent reviewing contributions, fixing bugs, putting out fires with Qt
>upgrades, and working on those four major things.
>
>Florian
>
>-- 
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From ottermanns at bio5.rwth-aachen.de  Fri Dec 14 11:10:31 2018
From: ottermanns at bio5.rwth-aachen.de (Richard Ottermanns)
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 11:10:31 +0100
Subject: [qutebrowser] Happy birthday, qutebrowser!
In-Reply-To: <20181214083805.a66z23gfc6a6bmet@hooch.localdomain>
References: <20181214083805.a66z23gfc6a6bmet@hooch.localdomain>
Message-ID: <b61535e6-29ea-4515-aeef-f5725e6609f3@rwthex-s3-a.rwth-ad.de>

Dear Florian,

happy birthday! I think everyone (who knows it) will agree that qutebrowser is one of the best pieces of software ever seen. And definitely the browser to go for. I have been struggling with dwb, uzbl and others for a long time and qutebrowser came as a true rescue. I am amazed how much ideas and power you and all the community have been spending since then. Thanks so much.

One thing that makes this project so special is the fact that it is always very close to the (command line loving) users. I hope that qutebrowser will always develop further, but stay close to its "less is more" philosophy.

Thanks a lot and keep on coding
Richard

On 14.Dec.18 09:38, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> Heya!
> 
> 5 years ago today, this happened:
> 
>   commit 11a94957dc038fc27c5ff976197ad2b2d0352d20
>   Author: Florian Bruhin <git at the-compiler.org>
>   Date:   Sat Dec 14 22:15:16 2013 +0100
>   
>       Initial commit
> 
> That's how qutebrowser looked a day after that (and that commit still
> seems to run!): https://imgur.com/a/xoG1r4G
> 
> Exactly a year later, things were finally ready for a v0.1 release,
> after spending two weeks of holidays with fixing bugs.
> 
> Originally, qutebrowser was born because the dwb project was
> discontinued: https://portix.bitbucket.io/dwb/
> 
> That's what I (and many others) were using at the time, and all
> alternatives were stuck with an unmaintained WebKit1. Since everything
> was using WebKitGTK which was horribly buggy (and WebKit2 in WebKitGTK
> lacked a lot of basic features), I decided to start my own thing, based
> on Qt instead.
> 
> Back then, there were already discussions about QtWebEngine, and I
> originally wondered whether I should just wait with starting qutebrowser
> until it's ready. QtWebEngine support was finally added in July 2016, a
> lot later than I imagined. Initially, many features didn't work yet, but
> in September 2017 it finally became the default backend.
> 
> Later, it turned out that qutebrowser also was a viable alternative for
> many Pentadactyl/Vimperator refugees, and qutebrowser got more popular
> than I ever imagined.
> 
> So far, there have been:
> 
> - 17,227 commits
> -  3,193 issues
> -  1,273 pull requests
> -    242 contributors
> -     47 releases
> -      2 crowdfundings
> - dozens of t-shirts
> - thousands of stickers
> 
> Thanks a lot to the whole community - y'all are awesome! I never
> imagined I would be working on this for so long, or that it'd gain so
> much traction. I also didn't believe the crowdfunding thing would work.
> You showed me otherwise \o/
> 
> Some 3-4 years ago, I noticed there were a couple of big things I'll be
> busy with for a while:
> 
> - Adding a testsuite because things broke a lot
> - QtWebEngine
> - The new config system
> - An extension API
> 
> I'm currently working on the fourth one. Not many new very big tasks
> have appeared (except maybe a testsuite which isn't as unreliable and
> slow, and some refactorings to keep my sanity when working on the code).
> 
> I'm really looking forward to the point where I can work on smaller
> things (and new features) again - for a long time, most of my time was
> spent reviewing contributions, fixing bugs, putting out fires with Qt
> upgrades, and working on those four major things.
> 
> Florian
> 
> -- 
> https://www.qutebrowser.org | me at the-compiler.org (Mail/XMPP)
>    GPG: 916E B0C8 FD55 A072 | https://the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc
>          I love long mails! | https://email.is-not-s.ms/



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From javierayres at gmail.com  Fri Dec 14 19:41:32 2018
From: javierayres at gmail.com (Javier Ayres)
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:41:32 -0300
Subject: [qutebrowser] Happy birthday, qutebrowser!
In-Reply-To: <20181214083805.a66z23gfc6a6bmet@hooch.localdomain>
References: <20181214083805.a66z23gfc6a6bmet@hooch.localdomain>
Message-ID: <CAByXd8N3Q-qgSh+pq8JijqnHu3coQwxMo-W=zUn4QhzC_sCkVQ@mail.gmail.com>

Happy birthday qutebrowser! And thanks Florian for staying behind this
project for
so many years. I hope to be using qutebrowser for many years to come!

I never knew dwb (nor Vimperator or Pentadactyl to be honest) so qutebrowser has
become not only an alternative for older tools but the first vim-like browser
experience for some users.

Can't wait to see what qutebrowser has to offer in the future.

Cheers!


From mgkeyes at vigovproductions.net  Fri Dec 14 23:50:49 2018
From: mgkeyes at vigovproductions.net (Michael Keyes)
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 22:50:49 +0000
Subject: [qutebrowser] Happy birthday, qutebrowser!
In-Reply-To: <20181214083805.a66z23gfc6a6bmet@hooch.localdomain>
References: <20181214083805.a66z23gfc6a6bmet@hooch.localdomain>
Message-ID: <d9bc3e51-39eb-0622-b1b6-87c26161abf8@vigovproductions.net>

Happy Birthday qutebrowser, you just keep getting better!


On 14.12.18 08:38, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> Heya!
>
> 5 years ago today, this happened:
>
>   commit 11a94957dc038fc27c5ff976197ad2b2d0352d20
>   Author: Florian Bruhin <git at the-compiler.org>
>   Date:   Sat Dec 14 22:15:16 2013 +0100
>   
>       Initial commit
>
> That's how qutebrowser looked a day after that (and that commit still
> seems to run!): https://imgur.com/a/xoG1r4G
>
> Exactly a year later, things were finally ready for a v0.1 release,
> after spending two weeks of holidays with fixing bugs.
>
> Originally, qutebrowser was born because the dwb project was
> discontinued: https://portix.bitbucket.io/dwb/
>
> That's what I (and many others) were using at the time, and all
> alternatives were stuck with an unmaintained WebKit1. Since everything
> was using WebKitGTK which was horribly buggy (and WebKit2 in WebKitGTK
> lacked a lot of basic features), I decided to start my own thing, based
> on Qt instead.
>
> Back then, there were already discussions about QtWebEngine, and I
> originally wondered whether I should just wait with starting qutebrowser
> until it's ready. QtWebEngine support was finally added in July 2016, a
> lot later than I imagined. Initially, many features didn't work yet, but
> in September 2017 it finally became the default backend.
>
> Later, it turned out that qutebrowser also was a viable alternative for
> many Pentadactyl/Vimperator refugees, and qutebrowser got more popular
> than I ever imagined.
>
> So far, there have been:
>
> - 17,227 commits
> -  3,193 issues
> -  1,273 pull requests
> -    242 contributors
> -     47 releases
> -      2 crowdfundings
> - dozens of t-shirts
> - thousands of stickers
>
> Thanks a lot to the whole community - y'all are awesome! I never
> imagined I would be working on this for so long, or that it'd gain so
> much traction. I also didn't believe the crowdfunding thing would work.
> You showed me otherwise \o/
>
> Some 3-4 years ago, I noticed there were a couple of big things I'll be
> busy with for a while:
>
> - Adding a testsuite because things broke a lot
> - QtWebEngine
> - The new config system
> - An extension API
>
> I'm currently working on the fourth one. Not many new very big tasks
> have appeared (except maybe a testsuite which isn't as unreliable and
> slow, and some refactorings to keep my sanity when working on the code).
>
> I'm really looking forward to the point where I can work on smaller
> things (and new features) again - for a long time, most of my time was
> spent reviewing contributions, fixing bugs, putting out fires with Qt
> upgrades, and working on those four major things.
>
> Florian
>

-- 
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