But it's ok for Tom Steiner to rant about Brave? ..tom On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 10:03 AM Jason Grigsby <jason@cloudfour.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 9:03 AM Tom Jones <thomasclinganjones@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Something's really wrong here. Chromium is supposed to be open source and >> lots of forks exist. But this group sounds like an internal Google thing. >> If Google wants it, it MUST happen. And only 2 forks matter, Chrome and >> Edge. I work on an incubating fork and expect that there will be some of >> the features that are not allowed as they are considered not safe. That >> process is likely to accelerate. >> > > This is about W3C community groups, not a Google nor Chromium. Marcos, > formerly of Firefox and now at Apple, is leading the discussion. Others > involved, like me, don't work for any browser company. > > There are two discussions happening here: > > 1. Can we clear the cruft from the wicg site so that people can more > easily distinguish between community groups that are active and those that > have gone inactive? > 2. How should we label specifications developed by the community groups so > people can more easily understand their status? For example, which browser > engines have implemented the a given spec and what cycle in the > standard-setting process is the community group is in. > > If you want to nominate additional forks of Chromium to be listed in the > labels, name the fork and make your case. For example, the recent > discussion of Brave made me wonder if Arc should be listed separately as > well. I do wonder if there is a percentage of market share that a browser > engine fork has to achieve before it is something that the groups track. > But I suppose that is up for debate or could even be configurable by the > community group itself instead of being preset options. > > If you want to rant about Google, Chromium, or any other specific browser > company, this probably isn’t the place for it. >Received on Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:07:53 UTC
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