[Sugar-devel] Taking over Browse maintainership

[David Farning]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Sascha Silbe
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> Since Browse has been unmaintained for several months [1] now, Lucian and I finally decided to step up as maintainers. This does NOT mean the current Browse will see a lot of improvements or even just bug fixes, as we are both already rather busy.
> We will, however, handle patches to the best of our abilities and maybe do some minor changes (e.g. include the CAcert root certs) or trivial fixes.
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> For those who don't know yet: Lucian is working [2] on an abstraction layer that will allow Browse to use WebKit (or xulrunner, should anyone want to ;) ) as part of this years GSoC. He already worked on adding SSB support [3] to Browse during last years GSoC. I'll let these facts speak for themselves. :)

Thanks for accepting responsibility for this critical activity.  The
combination of your general Sugar Labs expertise and Lucian's browser
expertise will make an excellent team.

david

> If someone else would like to maintain (or co-maintain) Browse, please speak up now.
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> Sascha
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> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Development_Team/Release/Modules&diff=44090&oldid=37446
> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2010/Abstract_Browser
> [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Webified
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