Thank you. See below.
Best wishes,
Wojciech
On 12/7/21 12:22 am, Thomas Adam wrote:
On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 12:13:49PM +1000, Wojciech Lipinski wrote:
Perhaps I could help a little bit with the content cleaning and merging. I
do not have much spare time either but I could do what I can in the time
available. I am not sure how http://fvwm.sourceforge.net/ relates to
fvwm.org and who is in charge of it.
Me neither, and it's not something I'm bothered to find out. In most
cases, it seems sourceforge sites have been taken over by squatters. Although
that's perhaps not the case here, I don't have control of that site and don't
wish to. As I said before, in most google searches, fvwm.org is usually the
place that's referenced.
Yes, fvwm.org comes at the top, Github is a bit lower in the search
results of Duckduckgo in Australia.
It says it is a mirror of fvwm.org and
that it is an official FVWM page, but it does not look like a mirror of
fvwm.org anymore. However, the following section of that "mirror" website is
quite useful: http://fvwm.sourceforge.net/doc/unstable/allCommands.html
That's not something that's going to work for fvwm3, as the documentation is
now rendered via asciidoctor. To maintain this list, we'd have to produce
this a different way.
I can see that /Archive/Manpages on fvwm.org contain all the commands
(https://www.fvwm.org/Archive/Manpages/fvwm.html#lbBN). I could not find
an index containing all commands. Would those pages, perhaps with a
command index added and after removal of all the obsolete features, be
an reasonable starting point for the official documentation of FVWM3
commands?
Furthermore, some websites, e.g. https://wiki.debian.org/Fvwm, refer to
https://www.fvwm.org/contact/
but it leads to 404.
If Jaimos is reading this, I'm sure he'll be able to fix this on the
Debian-side.
Thanks. fvwm.org says 2.6.9 is a stable frozen release. Wikipedia says
3-1.0.3 is the current stable release. Perhaps 2.6.9 should be referred
to as the old stable on fvwm.org?
I guess there is some legacy for the long history of
FVWM. How is fvwm.org maintained?
It's no different to how it has always been. It's just that now, Github is
being used for CI/CD and for people to submit patches.
I can see that fvwm.org is now much
refreshed and it has its Wiki section. Is it based on MediaWiki? If not,
have you and/or your colleagues considered using MediaWiki?
It's using Markdown and Jekyll (which is what is used for Github Pages as
well). See: https://www.fvwm.org/Wiki/ -- this will tell where to find the
repository to checkout for the Wiki as well (it's a part of the fvwm.org
website code).
Found it, thanks, all clear now. One more question related to the versions:
/Wiki/Todo says under "Edits and Cleanup"
"Update syntax and versions to 2.6.x.". As 3-1.03 is now the stable
release, does it mean the 2.6.x syntax will be fully maintained in
FVWM3, or this is some legacy text in the Wiki page?
Kindly,
Thomas
