On 29 January 2012 08:08, Viktor Griph <vik...@griph.se> wrote: > 2012/1/27 Harry portobello <harryportobe...@gmail.com>: >> we have lots of patches like adding round corners and fluxbox handels >> which have not been added to fvwm in long time - and why is this? why >> isnt the maintainer - thomas - adding these? > > There is no single maintainer of fvwm. It is maintained by > fvwm-workers. Thomas has been putting a lot of time and effort into > releasing 2.6, when no other fvwm-worker really has had the time to do > so. There are several reasons as of why certain patches aren't > accepted. Some of the patches affect areas of fvwm which in the long > term goal should be replaced by modules. Others are unclean, and no > one has been willing to clean up the code and write documentation for > the patches.
i get this but if no work has happened why cant we use the patches? its these delays which make users want to use another window manager >> so a new maintainer should listen more to this i hope > > And what makes you think that another fvwm-worker will have more time > now, when Thomas have been mostly alone doing the all hard work for > quite some time. Just because he no longer have the time either, it > doesn't mean that other fvwm-workers will have more time. i hope theyd be more responsive to questions like this - and not to ignore them Harry
