Comment by 1oooqooq
1 year ago
we need to clean cut from mozilla.
do they still make ot worthwhile for developers? are any on the payroll still?
i think the community should mobilize to sign up for adopting A single fork* as the official fork and completely drop mozilla from existence.
* only criteria should be the fork that is most convenient for all the other forks to just point to instead of mozilla and continue to ship with their patches. and that one fork should have the minimum resources to respond to security disclosures in place of mozilla, nothing else as a requirement.
More importantly that fork should be what other forks base off of. Anyone can put a skin on a browser, but someone needs to do the engine. If every fork who wants an engine improvement goes to the one place there is some mass behind making the fork real, and the other forks can still to their skin if they think it useful. That one fork also means that when mozilla comes out with a new version there are enough hands to merge (at least until Mozilla diverges too far from the fork)
What about Servo? That's coming along and already has a company/coop behind it.
https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-revival-2023-2024/
> and already has a company/coop behind it
Considering what has happened to Firefox, that's not encouraging.
the first part of your comment is exactly what i said.
the second part, it looks like you ignored my whole comment.
there should be no more mozilla. if they exist by means of opensource contributors. i question if they have their own developers on payroll still? which might be slightly harder to replace.