From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amin Bandali Subject: Re: Recipe for latest release of firefox? Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 23:10:01 -0400 Message-ID: <87muejzvue.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87impa92dr.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87lfu43s2m.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45411) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iFV1k-0002UY-H1 for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 23:10:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87lfu43s2m.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Mike Gerwitz Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Hi Mike, all, Mike Gerwitz writes: > 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 Rub=C3=A9n 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. > I think I=E2=80=99m in a similar situation as you: I, too, use IceCat every= day, in and out of Guix, but don=E2=80=99t know much about Firefox internals as = of now. I also sadly have little time on my hands, at least until the end of this year. But I too think a bit of time is better than none at all; so I=E2=80=99d be willing to give [co-]maintaining IceCat a shot, especiall= y if I may have someone else=E2=80=99s help along the way :). Would you please send along / Cc me in your questions thread with Rub=C3=A9= n? > > If I don't hear back from Rub=C3=A9n by the end of next week, I'll either > call him at the FSF or seek the answers elsewhere. > Rub=C3=A9n usually hangs out at #trisquel-dev on Fridays 12-1pm. You may be able to catch him there if you=E2=80=99re around. > > 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 feel similarly. Ideally, a prolific Guixer would step in and continue with the great legacy that Mark has built and left for us. Many thanks, Mark, for all you=E2=80=99ve done for us and Guix all along.