Hi list,
I have recently volunteered to take on some maintainership of GJS, as
Giovanni, Cosimo, and Colin haven't had much time to work on it lately.
This is an update on what I've been doing.
For the past month or so, I've been working on porting GJS's underlying JS
engine to SpiderMonkey 31, which is the next stable release after 24 which
we were previously using. This will gain lots of JS language features, such
as Array.find(), the spread operator in function calls, and promises which
I'm adding separately using the Lie library. Shout out to Endless which is
sponsoring this porting work.
I've also been trying to make some improvements to make it easier to
contribute to GJS, like cleaning up the build system a bit, and making the
tests more straightforward. (The end goal being that I'd like to make GJS a
welcoming enough project to attract a co-maintainer; two heads are better
than one, and get patches reviewed a lot quicker.)
Since this is November Bug Squash Month, I thought it would be nice to
clean out the bug tracker. If anybody reading this list has a patch that
has been sitting around for a while, give me a shout and I'll take a look
at it; or suggest a feature that you've long wanted to have in GJS. I'll
also be going through old bugs and closing them if they've become obsolete.
Help is welcome!
Lastly, if you develop an application that uses GJS and you want to help
out, why not try running your application with GJS compiled from the
SpiderMonkey 31 branch ("mozjs31") so we can have an early warning if
anything broke? If you need a hand doing this, please let me know (this
mailing list, or "ptomato" on IRC.)
Best,
Philip C
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