congrats! \o/
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:58:12 -0400, "Loic J. Duros" <address@hidden> wrote:
Hi,
I have just been made maintainer of IceCat and GNUzilla. Thanks to
Giuseppe Scrivano for all his work in the past and how far he took the
project. I have contacted him aside and I hope we'll be able to discuss
how IceCat has been run until now, and the direction towards which the
project will go in the future.
As you may already know, our plans for IceCat are big, starting with an
improved privacy extension and the detection of nonfree nontrivial
_javascript_. GNU LibreJS detects nonfree nontrivial _javascript_ and will
be enabled by default in IceCat after a few interactions with the
extensions currently used by IceCat are addressed.
We will also need an add-on list that is more up to date and easily
searchable. One idea was to use the AMO API to find which add-ons have a
free license to get an up-to-date list of add-ons that could potentially
make it to the IceCat add-on list. Some of you on the list have already
shown some interest to work on this (Thanks Leonardo!). As Jason Self
suggested, we could then use such tools as Fossology to ensure all the
extension code is effectively under a free license, and automate as much
as possible, the ongoing maintenance work that the IceCat add-on manager
requires.
The initial release of IceCat 12 might take a little longer since there
is a lot to work on, but I expect subsequent versions will regularly
become available shortly after Mozilla publishes new versions of its
browser.
Thanks, and I'm looking forward to getting the next release up.
Loic
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