On 14 June 2013 15:06, Jason Warner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Benjamin Kerensa <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Quality: Chromium just as of last year was totally unmaintained Ubuntu >> (http://askubuntu.com/questions/166931/why-is-chromium-not-updated-automatically-as-firefox-is) >> this does >> not seem like quality or stability in my opinion. > > Indeed, there was a time between the community maintainer of Chromium > leaving and us finding another maintainer that it went relatively > unmaintained (we still did a best effort to keep it updated, though it > wasn't any one person's focus). Now we have Chad Miller maintaining Chromium > fulltime.
I'm not sure that Benjamin's point was answered here. The current version of Chrome/Chromium on Linux is 28 released 6 days ago, 27 was released a full month ago, 26 was released nearly 3 months ago, but the version available for Ubuntu is still at version 25. It's widely known that new Chrome/Chromium release are also security updates. Also, what's currently blocking re-establishing Chromium daily or beta PPAs which should help identify issues sooner (such as the webapps feature not working with Chromium 26)? I know we're all thinking about the next Ubuntu LTS but it seems clear to me that Chromium still does not have a track record yet of being maintained well enough to replace Firefox as the default desktop browser yet (except perhaps on arm). Thanks, Jeremy -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
