Hi, sorry for the late reply!
I've been working on the View Only Mode for GSoC'21 during the
summer and am finishing it up this week. If you want to read about what
has been done so far you can check out my blog (
https://oscekh.github.io/)
and look out for the pull request that I'll make later this week.
When
the PR is up you could contribute by trying out the feature, reviewing
the code, and letting me know of any bugs/feature requests etc.
Then,
after GSoC, there will certainly be bugs/feature requests in
the issue tracker that you could work on. At the end of GSoC I'll also make a
note of things that could be implemented/refined in the view only mode
that I didn't have the time for during GSoC.
Let me know if you have further questions! :)
/Oscar Ekholm