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 <[email protected]> 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? > -- > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org > > > > -- > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org > > > -- > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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