Re: XULRunner future and ownership

XULRunner is dead, Long live XULRunner!

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Benjamin Smedberg <[email protected]>
wrote:

> The Mozilla project no longer sees XULRunner as a priority project. It's
> not core to advancing the open web or any of our current or planned
> products.
>
> As Ben Hearsum noted a couple weeks ago, we are turning off automated
> XULRunner builds and so XULRunner will probably quickly cease to work. In
> order to keep XULRunner in the tree, we need an owner who wants to keep it
> building and running properly. Currently, I am the nominal owner of the
> XULRunner code, but I have no desire to do this work or even really to
> review the necessary patches. I am looking to see whether there is an
> alternate owner who is interested in the task of keeping XULRunner building
> and running properly and reviewing patches to XULRuner-specific code.
> Please contact me if you want to nominate yourself or somebody else for
> this role.
>
> If I do not find a suitable owner in the next two weeks, I intend to
> remove the XULRunner code from the mozilla-central repository on 14-August.
>
> --BDS
>
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Benjamin Kerensa