Gary transcribed 4.0K bytes: > I'm not quite sure anyone realizes what it takes to maintain a small > project like this and keep it up to date in line with a project from an > organization with paid employees like Firefox & Mozilla -- especially > considering how many changes Firefox has seen in recent months. > https://www.ghacks.net/2017/03/07/cyberfox-proclaims-death-of-web-browser/ > > Even the ESR branch offers no guarantee of stability: > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/ > > Which leads me to wonder how many people use IceCat versus how many that > actually contribute to the project?
There are certain features which are not necessary. Yet trying to discuss them doesn't get picked up on this mailinglist. I don't know how many people contribute, but it will always be smaller than the size of people who use icecat. I think even the icecat in Guix applies more fixes than upstream icecat. And I can understand the reasons. Not everyone has the resources to contribute, not everyone sees certain work as easy, enjoyable, or even worth doing. I mostly work on projects I work on because of either interest or (mainly) because no one else was fixing or contributing what I wanted to see as changes. For icecat, I'm not looking to get involved, but: Is there a clear overview of open bugs, open issues, features which need to be addressed, what can be contributed in code, documentation, etc etc? If you presented this on a website it could help to get more people interested in contributing. > > > On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 5:03 PM, David Hedlund <[email protected]> wrote: > > > * The current released version of IceCat is version 45.7.0 and it is based > > on Firefox ESR 45.7.0. > > * Firefox 48 is the first version of Firefox Electrolysis, read more about > > Electrolysis here: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki > > /Free_Software_Directory:IceCat_extensions_(proposed)/Resources > > * Firefox 52.0 ESR was released 6th March: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/fi > > refox/releases/52.0esr/ > > This is the first ever released Firefox ESR that is based on > > Electrolysis, as the previous version was 45.8.0 > > > > When can we expect IceCat 52.0? > > > > > > -- > > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org > > > -- > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
