congrats! \o/ On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:58:12 -0400, "Loic J. Duros" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have just been made maintainer of IceCat and GNUzilla. 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. > > Loic > > -- > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org >
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