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It's great news for all of you who like the Chromium web browser |
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project. Today I've created a Gentoo project for it, called "Chromium in |
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Gentoo". See <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/chromium/index.xml>. |
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The goals of the project are: |
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* to ensure that Chromium-related ebuilds are kept up to date |
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and well integrated with the rest of the Gentoo system |
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* to build a community of Gentoo users interested in Chromium |
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development and packaging efforts (testing, bug fixing, feedback) |
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* to make Gentoo the best and most friendly platform |
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for Chromium development |
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If you'd like to help with these goals, you're welcome to join. If |
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you're not sure what to do, there are always some bugs to squash. ;-) |
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It'd also be cool to use less bundled libraries, and make some GNOME |
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dependencies optional, and get even more feedback about what we can improve. |
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Upstream is very friendly, and generally all our custom patches land in |
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the following upstream releases, with improved quality. |
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Bernard Cafarelli (voyageur), who is also a team member, deserves a |
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large part of the credit for current state of Chromium support in |
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Gentoo. He started the Chromium packaging work in May 2009, and |
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continues to do great work on it, including fixing bugs, bumping the |
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packages, and helping people in the forums. Thanks! |
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We've also received a lot of feedback and contributions from other |
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people - users and developers. Now that we have a project page, I hope |
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for an ever stronger community. |
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Paweł Hajdan jr |
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