Still there
By Kazé on Sunday, December 2 2012, 21:21 - Permalink
Wow, the last year just flew by! Time for a quick status update.
First of all, I’m not working on the editor back-end any more. I joined the Firefox OS dev team last January and I mostly work on the Gaia front-end. It’s been heart-breaking to stop working on the editor, which is the reason why I started contributing to Mozilla in 2006… but I have to confess I feel much more useful in the Gaia team, and I’m proud to be part of such an amazing project!
Sad corollary: like you would expect for such projects, the work pace is very high and I haven’t been able to work significantly on any other FLOSS project. The first official Firefox OS release is scheduled for mid-January 2013, so don’t expect any update on Kompozer or timesheets.js until the end of the winter. :-/
Among the cool things we do with Firefox OS, I’m the proud developer of webL10n, a client-side i18n/localization JS library. This library is used by all Gaia apps and by other cool projects like PDF.js or Etherpad Lite. We’re ironing webL10n at the moment and we’re trying to optimize its performances, so expect a first public release soon. :-)
Last, I’m organizing monthly French-speaking Vim meet-ups in the Paris office. It was supposed to be an experiment but it’s been working out surprisingly well since March! If you use Vim, speak French and are in Paris next Thursday, ping me. :-)
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Does this mean that significant work on Kompozer has been completed since the last update, and there is a reasonable chance of a new update in the Spring? Given that it's been almost 3 years since the last update, that's actually an encouraging time frame! :-)
Also, has work on the editor back-end been entirely dropped? It would be interesting to know the status of that project. (I must admit here that I don't even really know how the "editor back-end" relates to the thing I've been most hoping to see -- the inclusion of a simple and reliable HTML editor as part of the standard Mozilla product line).
Is the next KompoZer update gonna include Hyper Text Markup Language 5 & Cascading Style Sheets 3 support?
I am new to KompoZer and like what I see. I can see donating if this is not a dead project.
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