I'm very glad to see that John Robinson has agreed to let wmaker-crm become the official version -or at least that Carlos repo gets the front-page on the wmare site. And glad to see the site get updated.
However, I have a small concern with the use of 0.94 as the next version. The problem is that a year or so ago, I created several new versions of wmaker based on the original sources -the first of which was 0.93.0 -followed by 0.94.0 - 0.97.0. Among my motives were the desire to fulfill the original authors' wishes of reaching a stable version 1.0, before going on to port wmaker to use a cairo backend. At the time, my main machine was running a 2.4 kernel, so I found Carlos branch unusable after awhile -once it included kernel-2.6 features. I also found the pace of changes rather fast for my tastes and especially disliked the removal of old features which were working or nearly working and there seemed to be no interest in maintaining compatibility with BSD and others Anyway, I decided to update the old sources using fixes and feature additions which had been around for ages, but never incorporated in the official sources. I went through many versions because I wanted to limit the number of changes per version to 20-30 patches. This allowed for step-by-step upgrading and testing of the code in a less invasive manner. At the time, John was still working out issuse with the web domain and participants on all sides were unable to come up with a decision on which version control system to use. Since Carlos was inflexible about using git, I thought it would be good to create the updated versions and offer them to John as potential official versions. I also bumped the versions early so that 1.0 could be reached early -before more new (and not widely tested) features started to creep in. I never expected to generate as much interest in my repo or versions as Carlos was getting -he had the inertia with him already. STill, I wrote John a couple of times and offered my sources -even attached them to emails. However, I never got a single word back from him. Found it rather strange when he announced here that he wanted to hand over maintainership of wmaker and after getting several commnets back, he said he wanted to wait till he heard from me(??). Now, let me be clear. I am not complaining about John Robisnson or Carlos Mafra -they both have done the best they could the whole time -just as I did. Still, I would appreciate it if the wmaker-crm branch jumped to an official release of wmaker-1.1. This would still leave room for meeting the wishes of Alfredo that an official 1.0 be released -based on the original code pretty much intact and with very few additions -no major back-end changes. Based on the last version I produced, I even incorporated some of the changes from Carlos' branch which I like or were workable with the old code. Of course, there will be no hard feeling if my request is rejeted out-of-hand. But I think it is reasonable and fits into the natural progression of the project. wmaker-crm would simply occupy the place of the work which Alfredo & Co. had already begun -of doing a major re-write of wmaker from the bottom up. It's only about numbers anyway, but could avoid some confusion when anyone comes across a tarball of my versions 93, 94, 95, 96 or 97 Thanks very much for your consideration, Gilbert Ashley -- To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org.
