[Sugar-devel] Browse activity

[mokurai at earthtreasury.org]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 5:23 pm, David Farning wrote:
> Medium term, Activity Central has offered Lucian a job to work on the
> browser situation. Lucian will be finishing school and wrapping up
> lose ends for the next couple of month.
>
> Short term, I have have trouble justifying funding someone to work on
> browse until:
> 1. Sugar Labs starts actively recruiting developers and
> 2. Certain people from within OLPC stop recommending that deployments
> not work with Activity Central.

Based solely on a review of your incompetent Web site, I would agree
wholeheartedly with those people. Where is there genuine information on
the company?

> This is an ecosystem with several players who must work together to
> make Sugar/OLPC succeed.
>
> david
>
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>
> wrote:
>> May be replacing Browse with Surf is the right solution,
>> but in the short term we need work improving Browse.
>> I can help reviewing patches and doing releases if you want.
>>
>> Gonzalo
>>
>> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Sascha Silbe
>> <silbe at activitycentral.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Excerpts from Gonzalo Odiard's message of Wed May 18 15:46:07 +0200
>>> 2011:
>>>
>>> > According to git, nobody is working in Browse master.
>>>
>>> Lucian and me are the current maintainers [1]. However, we are already
>>> busy with other work and thus usually only handle patch review and
>>> releases, not work on Browse ourselves [2].
>>>
>>> Given the current state of affairs regarding xulrunner and
>>> python-xpcom,
>>> Browse needs to be replaced by a WebKit based browser activity ASAP.
>>> All
>>> non-bugfix work should focus on Surf.
>>>
>>> Sascha
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release/Modules#Browse
>>> [2]
>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2010-June/024747.html
>>> --
>>> http://sascha.silbe.org/
>>> http://www.infra-silbe.de/
>>
>>
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