Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Icecat maintainer position questions

[Ivan Zaigralin]

This would require more time than I have right now, but may be I can do it
in the fall.

Meanwhile, there is a bug somewhere which makes 22 incompatible with
oxygen-gtk2 in Slackware (which caused the devs to switch to ESR). All of
the sudden, I am happy with 17.1 :)

On 06/26/2013 02:30 PM, Loic J. Duros wrote:
> Hi Ivan:
> 
> Some help would be great, but the packaging part only takes 30 minutes; it's 
> not
> what's time consuming. Do you think you could help with the development of
> special feature? Also, we need to move the free addon page and make entries in
> the fsf free software directory. Helping on that end would be great. Do you
> think you could help with this also? I know Ian Dunn has done some work on 
> that
> end ao coordinating with him would be great! I'll see what you can help with 
> for
> "packaging" but it's not the part where most manpower is needed.
> 
> Regarding improvements to firefox lately; I agree, and help with the list of
> things to do will help make thia faster.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ivan Zaigralin <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>     By 21, many nice features were added:
> 
>     JS PDF viewer,
>     Killing hanging plugins,
>     Buttonized download manager (personal fave),
>     Better scaling algo for images,
>     Few dozen critical vulns plugged.
> 
>     I agree with RMS: there is no point upgrading every time, just because
>     Mozilla did. But it looks like v. 22 is significantly ahead of 17, both
>     in useful features and in security, so I've been waiting for an update
>     for a while now.
> 
>     Is packaging hard? I may be able to volunteer some of my time to help,
>     while Loic is probably busy with making freedom- and privacy-related
>     changes.
> 
>     On 02/04/2013 04:56 PM, Loic J. Duros wrote:> On 02/04/2013 04:50 PM, 
> Marco
>     Simonelli wrote:
> 
>         I’m always ready to package new versions, like I’m always ready to 
> support
>         IceCat in any way. Any ETA about IceCat 18?
> 
>     Releasing a version that mirrors Fx 18 last changes isn't as important to 
> the
>     project as adding new privacy features to IceCat. So the current version 
> of
>     IceCat is 17. Nowhere on the project does it say that IceCat should 
> follow the
>     latest developments from Mozilla automatically as they come. In fact, RMS 
> has
>     explicitly asked me not to release new versions of IceCat without the 
> latest
>     features requested. This is not what the project is about. Is there a 
> problem to
>     package IceCat 17?
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