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From: Mike Gerwitz <mtg@gnu.org>
To: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Recipe for latest release of firefox?
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 20:32:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfu43s2m.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87impa92dr.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Lemmer Webber's message of "Sun, 29 Sep 2019 18:14:08 -0400")

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On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 18:14:08 -0400, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote:
> Does someone have a recipe, or channel, for the latest release of
> Firefox?

FYI, I contacted Rubén recently asking a number of questions to
determine whether I may be able to take up [co-]maintaining IceCat.

But while I use IceCat daily, I know very little about Firefox from a
development perspective.  So if there is anyone willing to take the time
to answer some questions of mine to get me up to speed more quickly, I'd
appreciate it.  If there are people who would be willing to help
maintain IceCat, that'd be even better.  I don't have a lot of time, but
considering that IceCat is effectively unmaintained, a little bit of
time is better than no time.

If I don't hear back from Rubén by the end of next week, I'll either
call him at the FSF or seek the answers elsewhere.

As far as packaging it for Guix goes---I can't commit to doing that yet,
since I have very little experience there too and IceCat isn't the
easiest thing to package.  But if I do take up [co-]maintainership, the
ideal situation would be for me or someone else to update Guix the same
day that IceCat releases are published to gnu.org, or even produce the
releases using Guix, as Mark has done.

I'll have more information in the next couple of weeks.

-- 
Mike Gerwitz
Free Software Hacker+Activist | GNU Maintainer & Volunteer
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-10-02  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-29 22:14 Recipe for latest release of firefox? Christopher Lemmer Webber
2019-09-30 13:09 ` John Soo
2019-10-01 10:45 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-10-01 12:13   ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2019-10-02  0:32 ` Mike Gerwitz [this message]
2019-10-02  3:10   ` Amin Bandali
2019-10-03  1:36     ` Mike Gerwitz
2019-10-03  2:58       ` Amin Bandali

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