Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Icecat maintainer position questions

[Loic J. Duros]

Hi Zach:

Thanks for posting!

On 02/04/2013 03:40 PM, Zach Wick wrote:
> As a long time user of Icecat, I was surprised to see that the project
> is currently looking for a maintainer. Before I volunteer for that
> position (assuming that the call is still open)
I'm currently the IceCat maintainer. However we are actively searching 
for contributors/developers to work on the project. And your long-term 
participation would be welcomed!

> , I would like to know
> what is/are the duty/expectations of that position? I would assume that
> the main duty is the pull the upstream Mozilla code changes and apply
> them the the Icecat codebase, then package up the resulting new version
> of Icecat for the various main platforms.
Currently we are using BZR (with the handy bzr import method for the 
upstream tarball and bzr merge) to do that, then we look at (some of) 
the changes introduced by the latest version and merge it into IceCat. 
But that's only a very small part of what IceCat is aiming at. In fact, 
this is only a side issue to IceCat, as keeping up to date with the 
Firefox versions is not the priority. The priorities are: 1) Freedom 2) 
Privacy. Most of my time as a developer are dedicated to working on 
extensions to enhance privacy (an upcoming extension) and freedom (with 
extensions such as LibreJS.)

Would you like to help and work on such new projects that harness the 
Firefox extension development API (XPCOM, ...) to enhance freedom and 
privacy? If so, I have a big list of "things to do".

Loic