I think since you share the same goals having both limited manpower it's
the best to join the effort. I think it's the best for all wishing for a
more polished light desktop environment in Qt.
I used Razor some time, and for me it personally still needs some polishing
here and there, especially tool-whise. Joining force on this I believe is a
good step for the future.
Best luck on your efforts!
On Sunday, July 21, 2013 1:54:37 AM UTC+2, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
>
> Akademy is now over.
> It has been an incredible experience and I cannot express how friendly and
> fun the KDE community is. Everyone has been extremely welcoming and a lot
> of people absolutely love what the lightweight DEs are doing.
> While I was there, we were offered a spot under the KDE umbrella as a KDE
> member (which is different from becoming a KDE project, it does not add any
> dependencies on any kde library or project). Further details on that are in
> a separate email posted recently to the mailing list, I encourage everyone
> to have a look at it.
> I truly hope more people will join me at Akademy 2014; I'm really looking
> forward to it and will be staying for the entire week. Several photo albums
> are available on the Akademy wiki, here to convince everyone to come!
>
> I had the chance to talk a lot about Razor there. It has been clear the
> project has been in need of restructuring for a while now. We've had long
> periods with no commits at all. The 0.6.0 release has fallen behind and
> development overall has slowed down greatly. Some people are calling Razor
> "complete" but, while I agree it can be sufficient for a lot of use cases,
> it still is in need of a lot of polishing and improvements.
> One of the root causes is the lack of actual manpower. We lost several of
> our core committers due to personal reasons. Everyone here is a volunteer
> and that comes with the uncertainty on whether we'll still have developers
> around the next day.
> On the other hand, the LXDE team has made tremendous progress in their Qt
> port. This is excellent news for LXDE, for the Qt community and especially
> for us because the LXDE project has always shared our philosophy. We both
> strive for small footprint, limited dependencies and modularity.
>
> So what happens now?
> Our two teams have met up and discussed the issues and we have decided
> that the best course of action for both projects is to focus on a single
> desktop environment, instead of two.
> There have been talks of "merging" ever since LXDE-Qt was announced.
> Having taken the decision to collaborate, we've all had the pleasure of
> working together already.
> Our plan is to cherry-pick the best parts of Razor and LXDE and include or
> port those to LXDE-Qt. Other components will be ported straight from GTK
> code or rewritten from scratch. In the end, we want to offer the best
> possible experience while reusing as much code as possible. It will not be
> an easy process and as always, we welcome anyone who wishes to help, be it
> with development, translations, or general feedback.
>
> In the LXDE codebase, PCMan is overseeing the development of LXDE-Qt which
> will see a 0.1 release with several razor components already available. The
> GTK2 port will still be maintained by Andrej and will remain available for
> as long as possible. The plan is to keep the two branches in sync; as long
> as GTK2 is still widely in use, the GTK branch will be fully supported and
> receive further improvements and bugfixes.
>
> Whether LXDE itself will become a KDE member is yet to be determined.
> Their infrastructure is very attractive and we all wish to make use of it,
> but in the middle of all these events we have decided to keep the decision
> for later and involve as much of the community as possible in it.
>
> As for Razor-qt, we will release a final 0.6.0 package for those who are
> happy with the desktop as it is. We are starting the release process now
> and it will include several additional improvements from the Razor/LXDE
> fusion. After the release, there are no further plans to maintain the
> Razor-qt tree on its own. We will all be working on the LXDE-Qt
> repositories and we are looking forward to everyone joining forces and
> working on LXDE-Qt.
>
>
> I am joined by everyone in hoping this move will bring our two communities
> closer, as we are all very excited to work together on a single high
> quality, lightweight Qt desktop environment.
>
> J. Leclanche
>
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