Re: Canonical resources for Epiphany development?

[Steve Bergman <sbergman27 gmail com>]

On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 22:41 +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> 
> Good luck!
> 

Yes. I've kept tabs on the pulse of Ubuntu *users* regarding the
Epiphany vs FF issue over the last couple of years.  The subject comes
up periodically. (Gotta love the post about Mozilla's roadmap showing
that FF4 would be based on WebKit.  The tabloid press couldn't do any
better than that!)

I think that Ubuntu *maintainers* might be more receptive, however.
Mozilla Corp does not exactly make it easy to maintain FF within a
distro.  From what I hear, its a serious PITA.  Maintainers and devs
would also be more able to see where Epiphany-Webkit could be a big win
in the long run.

I'd be inclined to skip brainstorm and email Mark directly on the
matter.  But I think that it would be best if it were a well thought out
argument, with specific bullet points, written by someone more familiar
with Epiphany development I am. It might be especially persuasive if
there were an angle on it being a particularly good demonstration of
Canonical contributing back to the community.  That's bound to be an
area they are concerned about with all the current Canonical-bashing
that Greg K-H seems to have successfully stirred up.

-Steve