On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:10:32 -0500 Aaron Griffin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 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
