Mitchell Baker: « We started a conversation a while back about two year product and technology goals. I’d like to return to that discussion...» --

"A while back, Steve Yegge wrote a post on Emacs and its future. My executive summary of his post is that Emacs needs to compete or die - and the competition is the browser.

This got a little thread started on the Emacs development list, but not much activity..." --

"The newest official XULRunner has been released. XULRunner 1.9.0.1 matches the Firefox 3.0.1 release..." --
* (now, we need to port XULRunner to Emacs; it could be used as a rendering engine inside Emacs...)

Thomas Lord: «...The more urgent issue concerns the emerging W3C-based world: what will GNU have to offer there?» -- *

«...That said, one of the biggest questions with JIT compilation of JavaScript that I've had for months is, "How are we going to debug JavaScript now?"...» --

"The greatest single thing about Emacs is it's extensibility. If you think Emacs is missing something, or don't like how something works, you can change it. But that's true of any free software.

«...I've just implemented support for multiple package sources in package.el. Right now it is preconfigured to use ELPA, but the following snippet will let it pull in packages from my own archive source as well...» — via Phil Hagelberg —

Thomas Lord: «...The more urgent issue concerns the emerging W3C-based world: what will GNU have to offer there?» --
Miles Bader: «Hopefully, an alternative...» --

"The 2008 Firefox Summit is an invitation-only gathering of some of the most active contributors in the Mozilla community. The purpose is to discuss the future of Firefox..." -- The future of Firefox should be linked to that of Emacs ;)