I have been reading the old NEWS and ChangeLogs this evening. It was quite an experience to realize that fvwm-2.4.10 is *this* much more stable than the heap of spaghetti code we released three and a half years ago as fvwm-2.2. Did you notice that the type of bug reports has changed dramatically? Not so long ago we got a lot of bug reports with crashes or even build problems. Nowadays we get mostly reports about minor but unexpected changes in behaviour or drawing problems :-)
Am I just imagining things? No, I don't think so. The 2.2 releases were almost unmaintainable. In the two and a half years between 2.2 and 2.4, there 24 changes noted in the NEWS, while in the 14 months since 2.4 was released there were 183 changes. I can well remember the stereotypic "Sorry, there is no fix for 2.2.y, but it's already fixed in 2.3.z" while at the moment the vast majority of bug fixes can be applied to 2.4.x effortlessly. Today, I get the same work done in a third of the time :-) A big thank you to all the faithfull fvwm users who hang out on this or the fvwm list, constantly bug us with their problems and make us improve fvwm constantly. And another big thank you goes to my fellow developers and all the people who have contributed code (no less than 128 listed in the AUTHORS file with dozens missing). I'm happy :^) Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
