Hi All,
I recently discovered the horror which is the maintenance burden on the 
chromium maintainers. For those who don't know it consists at a minimum of 
bumping major for three versions of the same source code pretty much once every 
month, checking that the files do not 404, checking that the debian packages of 
chrome (which the non-free plugins are borrowed from) do not 404 and building 
all three along with testing them. I will also add that chromium takes a 
horrendous amount of time to build. And security advisories are common. Adding 
further work.

So I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on how we can ease the 
maintenance off chromium in nixpkgs.

I would be happy with a new focus on stable but with a dev version which pulls 
from git and builds the world target. Beta and dev are dropped.

Please let me know what you think.

Kind Regards,
Tony
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