Opened 14 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
#1850 closed defect (notabug)
Make the default web-browsing activity in SoaS a well-maintained upstream
| Reported by: | mchua, lucian, erikos | Owned by: | mchua sdz |
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| Priority: | High | Milestone: | Unspecified |
| Component: | Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) | Version: | Unspecified |
| Severity: | Critical | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Distribution/OS: | Fedora | |
| Bug Status: | Unconfirmed |
Description
A web-browsing Activity is a feature requirement for SoaS because it is the mechanism via which users install new Activities from http://activities.sugarlabs.org. Historically, we have used the Browse Activity. However, Browse is orphaned upstream.
The slightest change in xulrunner (in Fedora) gives us pain. but since xulrunner is pretty strongly maintained by the folks at Red Hat, there is not much we can do. But if anybody develops and maintains a new activity for browsing the net, we should look at that too.
We need to either find a maintainer or to look for something better for the next release.
Change History (3)
comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by walter
- Reporter changed from mchua to mchua, lucian, erikos
comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by sdz
http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg12133.html
I hear Lucian might be able to do something soon here, though. We need to make sure this is sustainable, though.
comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by pbrobinson
- Resolution set to notabug
- Status changed from new to closed
This is a problem agreed. Its not a problem of SoaS. The main problem is Browse isn't well maintained by SugarLabs. As such this isn't a SoaS bug.
Since when is Browse not maintained? Admittedly, there are a lot of open tickets... Lucian may be a candidate for taking it on.