Status of the project?

[piranna]

There has been no activity since February, is the project still active? How can we move It forward?

[piranna]

@fathyb seems to be almost totally out since february, hope didn't happen anything bad, but this project is really awesome and it's sad it stopped so much quickly after the initial hype. Is there anybody continuing work in a fork, or would like to be maintainer? I would do it myself if I had more time / energies, definitely it was not missing too much things to make it feature complete, and later we could automate it to keep on pair of upstream Chromium...

[orhun]

Looking from a different angle: I would personally feel a bit pressured/stressed to work on this project since it became so big. I hope that's not the case for @fathyb 🐻

[piranna]

Looking from a different angle: I would personally feel a bit pressured/stressed to work on this project since it became so big. I hope that's not the case for @fathyb 🐻

Agree, I sort of suffered the same with https://github.com/NodeOS, I left it some time due to work needs, and later I got anxious about retake it and move to another things. OTOH, becaming so big so fast is something good, and the fact of happening so much fast it makes it easier to see if you need some extra help from collaborators...

Besides that, how can we make it move forward? I think first step would be to update dependencies and be sure everything is still working, and later merge all PRs and forks changes in the same code base, and make a list from the issues about what are the missing features and write them down so people can pick them if they want. Project management is really boring, but sometimes it's needed to do a step back and see things with a better perspective... and now we have already done the step back :-)

[fathyb]

Hey! What happened was actually good news for me: I got a job thanks to Carbonyl and it's exactly what I always wanted (Rust and Chromium and GPU stuff). It took most of my focus initially, but now might be time to balance both things, hehe.

I agree there are a lot of things to improve. Carbonyl was my first Rust project, and it shows! There is also some work to do on making it easier to sync with upstream Chromium, and there is a lot of code that should be shared with html2svg.

I also wanted to make a third related project: something to render any Wayland app in the terminal using SIXEL, so that we can finally get an high-resolution Firefox in the terminal through an SSH session.

Please feel free to open pull requests, if you ping me I'll make sure to take a look within a few days!

[piranna]

Oh, good to know of you, and congrats of your job! :-D If you need some beta tester or somebody to discuss, just tell me ;-)