XULRunner - will be or won't be?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jun 29 04:55:07 UTC 2007


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Christopher Aillon wrote:
>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>> This is not a big enough change to warrant that IMO though.  It 
>>>> won't be any more newsworthy than any other firefox release.  It 
>>>> will be done sooner rather than later.  Probably by next week, 
>>>> although having to send my status updates on a tiny project like 
>>>> this isn't helping me get it done faster.
>>>
>>> This goes to the heart of the problem. You don't consider the changes 
>>> important but it is. Firefox related changes are BIG news.
>>
>> Please stop misinterpreting things.  I never said it was not 
>> important.  I am saying that it is not any more important than going 
>> from 2.0.0.0 to 2.0.0.4.  It will require an equivalent amount of 
>> work: this is essentially just a version upgrade.
> 
> This is amply different from being merely a version upgrade. That should 
> be evident by the amount of discussions within Fedora and in Mozilla.
> 
>   People will always find something to complain about
>> but I'm glad that I was at least able to help fulfill your wiki page 
>> writing desires.
> 
> There will be always people critical of our work but that in many cases 
> helps us understand the things we need to change. No thanks to you for 
> demotivating sarcasm on efforts that were taken in part from helping you 
> avoid answering repetitive questions but let me clarify that I have no 
> inherent desires to write wiki pages.
> 
>> So fine.  You win.  Please put up a wiki page that says that XULRunner 
>> will be included in the next week or so. 
> 
> It was never about me winning. It was about having a planned and 
> transparent feature list.
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/XULRunner

This has been renamed to FeatureXULRunner for consistency.

Rahul




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