Dear mentors, I would appreciate a comment or two on the continuation of the window manager W9wm. It has been orphaned a year ago in #508097. There was a single response from the maintainer Benjamin Drieu <[email protected]>, but then a year of silence.
Recently on December 2nd, Jan Hauke Rahm <[email protected]> threatens to remove the package within a month, should no further action surface. I have this morning for my own testing restructured the package in two ways, and I have arrived at lintian clean packages. My present question is this: Could I in all friendliness push forward to apply for a takeover of W9wm, or is it preferable to drop the package. I would imagine that special care is involved when a DM falls short of constantly monitoring a package. Let me as background mention that I this autumn and late summer revived the dormant window manager Windowlab, and as recently as this week my package entered the testing repository. Windowlab had been removed earlier this summer. For Windowlab I have committed myself to code auditing, thus causing three new release so far, and now a fourth acknowledged by the upstream author. I would imagine doing at least code checks as well as packaging for W9wm, should I receive some blessing. One immediate problem is that the official site http://inferno.cs.univ-paris8.fr/~drieu/w9wm/ is no longer accessible. The Debian mail address of Benjamin Drieu is also locked at http://db.debian.org/. Kind regards, -- Mats Erik Andersson <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
