[arch-dev-public] Bringing WindowMaker forward
Hi, I know that most of you doesn't really use WindowMaker or think it's obsolete. Nevertheless I use it daily at my main desktop and I'm very happy with it. Sadly there were no release since 4 years! :( At the moment there are some very active developers which forked the actual last CVS snapshot of WindowMaker and doing a lot of work with new features and bugfixes. The mailinglist of WindowMaker is very active with those developers and it looks promising. I have used there GIT snapshot since a few days and it looks very good. I would like to replace our official package with a regular updated GIT snapshot package to give the new developers as much feedback as possible and to give our WindowMaker users a more fresh WindowMaker than the 4 years old one. Any objections in doing this? Cheers, Daniel
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Daniel Isenmann <daniel.isenmann@gmx.de>wrote:
Hi,
I know that most of you doesn't really use WindowMaker or think it's obsolete. Nevertheless I use it daily at my main desktop and I'm very happy with it. Sadly there were no release since 4 years! :(
At the moment there are some very active developers which forked the actual last CVS snapshot of WindowMaker and doing a lot of work with new features and bugfixes.
The mailinglist of WindowMaker is very active with those developers and it looks promising. I have used there GIT snapshot since a few days and it looks very good.
I would like to replace our official package with a regular updated GIT snapshot package to give the new developers as much feedback as possible and to give our WindowMaker users a more fresh WindowMaker than the 4 years old one.
Any objections in doing this?
Cheers, Daniel
as long as you test the git snapshots first in order to provide some kind of stability check I see no problems with it. I may even give it a try just for fun. Ronald
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:07:34 +0200 Ronald van Haren <pressh@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Daniel Isenmann <daniel.isenmann@gmx.de>wrote:
Hi,
I know that most of you doesn't really use WindowMaker or think it's obsolete. Nevertheless I use it daily at my main desktop and I'm very happy with it. Sadly there were no release since 4 years! :(
At the moment there are some very active developers which forked the actual last CVS snapshot of WindowMaker and doing a lot of work with new features and bugfixes.
The mailinglist of WindowMaker is very active with those developers and it looks promising. I have used there GIT snapshot since a few days and it looks very good.
I would like to replace our official package with a regular updated GIT snapshot package to give the new developers as much feedback as possible and to give our WindowMaker users a more fresh WindowMaker than the 4 years old one.
Any objections in doing this?
Cheers, Daniel
as long as you test the git snapshots first in order to provide some kind of stability check I see no problems with it. I may even give it a try just for fun.
Ronald
I will test those snapshots on my workstation in a daily usage scenario before I will release it.
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Ronald van Haren <pressh@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Daniel Isenmann <daniel.isenmann@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi,
I know that most of you doesn't really use WindowMaker or think it's obsolete. Nevertheless I use it daily at my main desktop and I'm very happy with it. Sadly there were no release since 4 years! :(
At the moment there are some very active developers which forked the actual last CVS snapshot of WindowMaker and doing a lot of work with new features and bugfixes.
The mailinglist of WindowMaker is very active with those developers and it looks promising. I have used there GIT snapshot since a few days and it looks very good.
I would like to replace our official package with a regular updated GIT snapshot package to give the new developers as much feedback as possible and to give our WindowMaker users a more fresh WindowMaker than the 4 years old one.
Any objections in doing this?
Cheers, Daniel
as long as you test the git snapshots first in order to provide some kind of stability check I see no problems with it. I may even give it a try just for fun.
In addition, please put the actual snapshots in /srv/ftp/other etc, instead of doing it like an AUR package. This way we can reliably rebuild from ABS
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:10:32 -0500 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Ronald van Haren <pressh@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Daniel Isenmann <daniel.isenmann@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi,
I know that most of you doesn't really use WindowMaker or think it's obsolete. Nevertheless I use it daily at my main desktop and I'm very happy with it. Sadly there were no release since 4 years! :(
At the moment there are some very active developers which forked the actual last CVS snapshot of WindowMaker and doing a lot of work with new features and bugfixes.
The mailinglist of WindowMaker is very active with those developers and it looks promising. I have used there GIT snapshot since a few days and it looks very good.
I would like to replace our official package with a regular updated GIT snapshot package to give the new developers as much feedback as possible and to give our WindowMaker users a more fresh WindowMaker than the 4 years old one.
Any objections in doing this?
Cheers, Daniel
as long as you test the git snapshots first in order to provide some kind of stability check I see no problems with it. I may even give it a try just for fun.
In addition, please put the actual snapshots in /srv/ftp/other etc, instead of doing it like an AUR package. This way we can reliably rebuild from ABS
I have add the package to the repository and copied the sources tarball to /srv/ftp/other/windowmaker/ I didn't replaced the package as I planned before, I only created a new package with the -git ending. This way we can make sure, that only people are upgrading to the git-version who really like to. I will post something in my blog about the new package, which will then appear on the planet. I don't think it's really necessary to post a front news for that. Maybe I will post a few words to the forum, too. I will regular update the package to reflect the changes which are made in the GIT repo of windowmaker-crm, to be up2date as possible. Cheers, Daniel
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Aaron Griffin
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Daniel Isenmann
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Ronald van Haren