On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, M Rawash wrote: > On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 23:43 -0400, Timandahaf wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, M Rawash wrote: > > > now that tuomov has finally severed his last remaining connection > > > with ion, what do we (committed ion users) do now? > > > > First, thanks for starting this thread! I did notice that Tuomov's > > pages were down, but since his whole site was down, I was waiting > > for it to come back without realizing he might have taken the whole > > project down. Quick question: do we know for sure Tuomov has > > severed connections with ion3 permanently or is this our best guess > > at this point? > > It's a pretty solid guess...
Tuomo responded to an email on this list on March 22. Maybe he's just on vacation. He's complained often about the lack of good, simple web hosting. Seems slightly hasty to not wait to hear from the man himself that the project is "abandoned"-abandoned (as opposed to "I've switched to Windows, and don't plan to support this"). > > ion3 has been my primary environment for a while now, and I won't > > consider changing. I love its design, philosophy, and simplicity, > > but I'm preaching to the choir here. > > > > I'm all for forking into /one/ fork, and that too only because of > > the licensing issue--please lets not make multiple messy forks. Like > > a few of you, I don't have much time either right now, but expect to > > be able to contribute a more a few months down the line. But I can > > contribute towards getting us going right now if needed. Personally, I don't understand everyone's reluctance to even consider changing. Ion's great 'n all, but without extremely committed leadership, there doesn't seem to be much point to forking. (Either it will remain the useful tool it is and only get bugfixes, or it'll bitrot completely.) Why not branch out and get other similar-minded window managers (under active development) to incorporate some of what you love about ion? Guessing that won't be a popular sentiment, but whatever. Not trying to completely discourage anyone -- just adding my $.02. > "notion" seems to get the most support amongst those who posted so > far... My favorite, too. Good luck to anyone willing to commit the time it's gonna take. -- Best, Ben
