[Greasemonkey] Greasemonkey development has stopped; time for 1.0?

[Arvid Jakobsson]

As a userscripts author, this is what I would like to see in a new
version of greasemonkey, plus your suggestions:

1) A few new GM_* API:s, like GM_get/setClipboard, GM_closeTab (maybe useful)
2) Regexp includes, with the ability to see what regex include was matched.
3) Some kind of webstorage?

On 10/7/06, Gareth Andrew <freega at freegarethandrew.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have noticed that greasemonkey development activity has stopped -
> apart from the refactoring which aaron did when merging back into the
> trunk, nothing has changed in over a year.
>
> I think this is due to a combination of two factors
>     1) Greasemonkey is "perfect" - that is it has a stable set of
> features that cover all the major use-cases for people wanting to write
> "simple site extensions", new features would be considered bloat.
>     2) The greasemonkey development team no longer wants to develop
> greasemonkey.  I can't speak for any of them, but I guess it is because
> either they believe (1) or they are too busy/have moved on to greener
> pastures.
>
> While these are both valid reasons, I would not like to see greasemonkey
> development stop for good.
>
> As I see it one way forward might be to create a 1.0 release of
> greasemonkey, this version would be maintained with bug-fixes, extra
> locales etc, but the feature set and api would be frozen as it is now.
> Maintenance of this version should be a relatively low-effort task.
>
> This would free us up to talk about greasemonkey 2.0, which would be the
> release containing any new features.  I would like to have a
> conversation about what user script developers might like to see in a
> new greasemonkey, my wishlist would be:
> 1) Greasemonkey Imports
> 2) A better storage solution
> 3) Access to some chrome privileged methods especially = canvas.drawWindow()
>
> In order to build greasemonkey2 the project will have to encourage more
> developers to take part in developing greasemonkey.  I think one of the
> things that might make this easier is to draw up a democratic process
> (eg. [2]) so that it is easier for new blood to be incorporated into the
> greasemonkey team.
>
> Thoughts anyone? Aaron?
>
> Gareth.
>
> [1] -
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Drawing_Graphics_with_Canvas#Rendering_Web_Content_Into_A_Canvas
> [2] - I particularly like the apache jakarta groups's process -
> http://jakarta.apache.org/site/decisions.html
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