On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Jeremy Bicha <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
Yeah right now I see 25.0.1364.160 shipping in raring and we don't even have a saucy branch open yet which is not great. Looking at Chromium's Security Blog I can see copious amounts of security fixes that have landed in Chromium upstream that have not made it down to Ubuntu. While Firefox right now is in a rather better position in terms of being a secure/stable browser. -- Benjamin Kerensa http://benjaminkerensa.com "I am what I am because of who we all are" - Ubuntu -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
