Ah! The choice of an "official" maintainer is secondary, imo. It could be any of you, me, or whatever. I think that what is really important is to have a centralized point of convergence :)
Bye! A. On 6 November 2012 12:31, Alfredo Di Napoli <alfredo.dinap...@gmail.com>wrote: > The point is, I think it would be beneficial for XMonad to merge efforts > in one one point. > For this reason I've contacted Adam (the current maintainer) and asked him > if I could co-maintain XMonad. > The point is trying to make all our efforts in only one point. This is an > excerpt of what I've told him: > > Thanks for the quick reply. if you would like to, we can co-maintain >> Xmonad. I've been using it for six months now and became such an invaluable >> tool that Os X aqua interface sucks when I use it :) >> I will be pretty busy until the end of the year, because I just landed a >> new job abroad and I'm in the process of relocating, bUt i'll have plenty >> of spare time this winter to hack on Xmonad. >> I have great plans for our lovely window manager, including: >> 1) a new website, the current is nice but too geeky and "old". Capturing >> user interest through a cool website is very important imho >> 2) move Xmonad repo to github. this may sound heretical, but a lot of >> people (me included) are put off by Darcs. Git and github is such an >> effective tool that can't be ignored any longer. Furthermore, there is a >> lot of hype this days for osxmonad, which apparently build upon Xmonad, >> reusing it as much as possible. They are on github too. Working thightly >> with them we could create a family of product, with a bulk core >> (microkernel) and different adaption layer according to the Os (linux >> rather then mac os x) > > > Your fork could be a starting point, we could merge everything under one, > centralized repo on github, switching for a user based account to an > organization profile (XMonadWM or simply XMonad are two possible names, for > example). > > As soon as I get a reply for Adam I'll inform you! > > Bye! > A. > > > On 6 November 2012 12:23, Johan Brinch <brin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Alfredo Di Napoli >> <alfredo.dinap...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > looking at the Darcs repo it seems that something is happening, but >> XMonad >> > wasn't updated in a year on Hackage and everything seems to be still. >> > Is XMonad still actively developed? If yes, who is the current >> maintainer? >> > It would be good to have him listed in the Hackage package description, >> in >> > order to contact him. >> > Atm there is one generic email that seems not to be read very often :) >> > >> >> Me and a couple others from the University of Copenhagen are running a >> fork of both XMonad and XMonadContrib here: >> https://github.com/reenberg/xmonad >> https://github.com/reenberg/XMonadContrib >> >> Jesper Reenberg is in charge and we're patching bugs in our spare >> time. We're both running this version daily (it's not bug free, but >> it's stable "enough"). >> >> -- >> Johan Brinch >> > >
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