Tuesday, 7 February 2017

Re: Frontend maintainership

Hi,

On 06/02/2017 12:25, Vincent Sanders wrote:
> atari - The atari frontend is built for m68k and coldfire variants
> using a variant of the netsurf cross compliation
> toolchain/sdk. No serious updates have been made to this
> toolchain in some time and it has become a burden.
>
> Unless this is addressed before the next developer weekend the
> frontend will be disabled in the CI and subsequently code
> removed.

I'll forward to the atari forums I know.

> windows - Lacks a full maintainer but has been fixed up to be at least
> useful. A maintainer for this frontend would be welcome.

I'd ask the ReactOS devs, maybe someone would be interested.
I just asked on their IRC channel.

> beos - The Beos port is generally only tested on Haiku at this
> point. The frontend is kept useful by mmu man and
> pulkomandy. Main issues revolve around the CI slave and its
> crashy java port.

FWIW, I was probably one of the last 10 BeOS users and I moved to Haiku
some years ago already. We should just rename the folder.


> gtk - Vince looks after this and despite gtk+ changing API a lot it
> remains useful.

Move to Qt? :D

François.

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