Benjamin Lutz wrote:
> What are you actually doing?
Currently? Answering questions :-/.
> I mean, what parts of Beonex are based on
> Mozilla, and what parts are you coding yourself?
All of it is based on Mozilla. Everything I code myself I submit back to
mozilla.org (unless I work for hire and the contractor asks me not to
publish the source or mozilla.org doesn't want my changes, because it
has a different target audience).
For this release, I
- changed defaults
- prefs, some of which are not accessible in the Preferences dialog,
but still *very* important, e.g. http referer
- search engines
- removed hookups to websites (yes, even mozilla is "connected"), e.g.
- removed the network-fetched panel list in "customize sidebar"
- made homepage (Help|Welcome) and license local
- branded
- packaged
The downloadable file is even smaller than that from Mozilla,
because I used some tricks here and there.
and, of course, created the website and cared about all the other
distribution stuff like ordering servers, services etc., press.
So, most of the credit actually goes to all the Mozilla contributors.
That's why I call Beonex "distributor" (similar to "Linux
distributors"), not "author" or the like.
I will try to go back and do some development (LDAP, foremost), but I'll
do that based on funding and will also contribute that back to
mozilla.org (i.e. it might or even will probably end up in Netscape 6,
too, eventually). More about that on <http://www.beonex.com/dev>, even
more soon.
> What can you change, and what not?
Assuming sufficient skills, I can change everything, just as you can.
It's open-source. You can change "Beonex" to "Lutzex" and distribute the
result yourself. ;-P
Since I am working in the project for some time, it is not that hard
anymore as it once was to break into new areas, but it is still hard. I
spent most of my time on Mailnews, so this is what I know best. If I
can't do something personally (which happens quite frequently), I ask
somebody else in the Mozilla project.
