Comment by pbronez
1 year ago
Kagi has started porting Orion to Linux [1]. They’ve stated that multiplatform support is just a question of resources [2].
You can contribute code [3] or money [4] to accelerate this process.
[1] per 2/25 subscriber newsletter: “What’s coming in 2025? … We started working on Orion for Linux!”
[2] https://orionfeedback.org/d/2321-orion-for-windows-android-l...
[3] https://help.kagi.com/orion/support-and-community/contribute...
> You can contribute code [3]
How exactly? The link doesn't say. Orion appears to be closed source.
Hmm… Dug into it a bit deeper.
Kagi has several repos open for contributions [1] but Orion isn’t fully open source yet [2]:
> Is Orion open-source? > > We're working on it! We've started with some of our components and intend to open more in the future. > > Forking WebKit, porting hundreds of APIs, and writing a browser app from scratch has been challenging for our small team. Properly maintaining an open-source project takes time and resources that we are currently short on. If you would like to contribute, please consider becoming active on orionfeedback.org.
It’s not obvious to me which of their public repos are Orion components.
You can contribute translations [3], bugs [4], and docs [5]. Orion is based on WebKit, so you can contribute upstream there [6]. Oodles of open issues on their bugzilla [7]
[1] https://github.com/kagisearch
[2] https://help.kagi.com/orion/faq/faq.html#oss
[3] https://help.kagi.com/orion/support-and-community/contribute...
[4] https://help.kagi.com/orion/support-and-community/troublesho...
[5] https://help.kagi.com/orion/support-and-community/contribute...
[6] https://webkit.org/contributing-code/
[7] https://bugs.webkit.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&product=W...