On 1/16/2017 12:43 PM, Dave Townsend wrote:
One of the things I've been investigating since moving back to the desktop
team is how we can remove XUL from the application as much as possible.
Would you be open to a team of volunteers working on this issue?
I've been pursing an effort in the state of Washington to get teams of
prisoners who are graduates of a computer education curriculum to
contribute to open-source projects. I'm looking for a few projects that
could have pedagogical value, and could be successfully pursued in an
environment with severe restrictions such as a prison. The best projects
have a large, well-defined backlog of similar projects that could be
pursued after a particular skillset and set of tools is acquired. It
seems to me like XUL to HTML conversion might fit this well.
I might be able to put together a team of around 5 people on this. Are
you seriously interested in converting existing XUL to HTML such that
you might have the patience to work with volunteers on this, and would
accept patches that met your standards? I would serve as a filter so any
issues that would be presented publicly would not be trivial hand holding.
I might start with a similar project in Thunderbird because I have
better contacts there and it might be more approachable.
Are there any good examples of XUL to HTML conversions that have been
done already? If not, would it be possible to get at least one official
conversion done that could serve as an example of expected practice?
:rkent
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