Why www/firefox-devel isn't updated any more?

Jeremy Messenger mezz7 at cox.net
Sun Mar 29 11:07:12 PDT 2009


On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:11:11 -0600, Denise H. G. <darcsis at gmail.com> wrote:

>>>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> writes:
>
>     Jeremy> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:17:43 -0600, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com>  
> wrote:
>     >> Currently port is at 3.0.a2. And FF team already has 3.6pre.
>
>     Jeremy> Because we no longer have interest in maintain any of gecko
>     Jeremy> ports. We are planning to give up the maintainership of
>     Jeremy> gecko ports.
>
>     Jeremy> Cheers, Mezz
>
>     Does it mean we are going to favour webkit or something else?
>     It seems epiphany picks up webkit backend again in 2.26 and some
>     webkit powered browsers such as midori become quite useable
>     recently.

No, it has nothing to do with that. We just don't have anyone to really  
work on gecko ports. The gecko ports need a good maintainer that can  
improvement and get things done. We aren't able to get stuff done due to  
lack interest and don't have anyone work on it.

Cheers,
Mezz

>     thanks.
>
>     >> Yuri


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