On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Ronald van Haren <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Daniel Isenmann <[email protected]> > 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
