Opera Habrast: Opera Desktop Team

So, the heat subsided a bit - both in central Russia and in the Opera Software development department - it’s the most time to find out opera secrets in browser engineering. According to the schedule approved not so long ago - this interview will be devoted to the development of the Opera browser: how does this sacrament happen, what kind of mess with version numbers and assemblies, “Opera BTS - myth or reality?”, How many lines of code in Opera browser, how to get the source browser to your mailbox on mail.ru - these and many other equally important questions today will be answered by team leaders, the most important people from the department responsible for the desktop development area.

Assuming a large number of questions, I immediately agreed with two respondents - well known to those habitura who often look at the Opera Desktop Team blog . We welcome guests:

Olafur Arnason , better known as Olli - the leader of the development team of the desktop version of Opera, one of the "patriarchs" of our company, who has been working in Opera since 1998. He can tell not only about the current state of affairs in the opera “kitchen”, but also recall the old days when the Opera browser took only the first steps in the possession of mastodons such as Netscape and Internet Explorer.

Huib Kleinhout- Leading manager of the development team for the desktop version of the browser. He has been working in the company for 5 years and knows almost everything about what “features” were, are and will be in Opera.

By the way, both of today's guests, as a homepage in the browser, apparently hold the opera BTS, because An active discussion of the next bug fixes involving Olli and Huib often takes place deep after midnight and on weekends.

That's all for now. As usual - in the comments, questions are accepted within a week from the date of publication of this topic, the approximate date for the publication of answers is the end of August.