"Loic J. Duros" <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > I have just been made maintainer of IceCat and GNUzilla.
Congratulations! > 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. Great. From my selfish point of view, I suggest to postpone as much of new development as possible, and focus on getting the version 12 release out and *.deb packages built so that people can start to use the latest version as soon as possible. Then incrementally address the issues you want done. Just my $.2. /Simon -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
