Re: Maintainership: was Re: Galeon 2 in the GNOME 2.2 Desktop

Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
> Perhaps a better strategy would be to take the current Galeon, get it stable
> and the current features fixed up (bonoboui bits, etc), and do your feature
> hacking on another branch for 2.4. Galeon 1.3 is already so very close to
> stable. I think this is a very realistic approach, if you guys have the time
> for it (note that if it's in the desktop release, lots of other people will
> be poking at it too, so you will get some help).
> 
> Thoughts?

Well, there are a couple of issues here: One, I don't consider 1.3.0 to
be usable without a sane way to chose a helper app, and I'd very much
like to get external downloader support fully back in. Both features
were commented out (literally) at the last minute and I want them back
in for 2.0. Also, I want Ric's toolbar stuff in. I've already got the
guts of those first two back on in the head branch though there's no
UI as of yet. If you're prepared to accept galeon with such changes,
then I think we can make it work, but I have no interest in perpetuating
a branch with 1.3.0's crippled feature set.

Frankly, I want a sessions solution and the bloody tools menu back in
asap but if that's pushing the notion of a freeze too far, I'll
understand.

>   (btw, hope you liked my response on the Galeon features question - I'm
>   sure that many of these can be put back in without the UI suffering too
>   much.)

Indeed, I found your response most helpful, and I want to get stuck into
these things as soon as possible, but as I said, it's not going to be
for another few weeks.

--phil




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