On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Christopher Bratusek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > since I got the maintainer ship of sawfish from janek today, I decided to > give a christmas-present to > our users: Sawfish 1.3.5 will be released on either 22.12.08 or 23.12.08. > But you don't have to hurry, > anything not finished until when will simply go to 1.3.6. > > New development cycle will see a release each 10 - 12 weeks. > (only if there's enough stuff for a new release of course) > > ... That is not too much but faster than now. > > Voting system stays as is, but what if there's only the authors vote, or > just one additional vote, should > I then decide about the patch or are there other ideas? > > About sawfish-experimental ... I would prefer doing sawfish development, > like I do librep and rep-gtk. > When something is finished, tested and approved it goes to trunk > immediately. That means, if your patch > is approved, you can commit on your own without having to ask once more. Of > course we can keep > sawfish-experimental, but how many people do really use it, in favor of > stable or trunk? What do you think?
I'm still using the version available in Debian (Sid), and unless it's something in the C core, it's ridiculously easy to test new jl "modules" on a stable version. > Does anyone know how to upload to the gnome-ftp and how to update the > gnome-release-rss? What might > give us more publicity. ( RSS-Location: > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/LATEST.xml ) > > I thought about the documentation situation ... perhaps it's really better > to force the developer to add at least > a small documentation entry for the new functions? As you can see on the > wiki the current docu is outdated. I think it's a sensible requirements for new functions. > As far as I know Sven left us, right? But he's still listed at the People > page. On the other hand Timo and Teika > are missing. You two really should add yourselves to the list, since your > both doing a great job. > What about Robert? I never heard anything of him (since July 07). And Andrea > might update his "Skills" listing. Essentially a basic Comon Lisp and C knowledge, never created big or complex applications. > What do you think about participating to librep and rep-gtk, too? > I'm sure that you have ideas for them, too. (everyone with a svn account can > write to them) > > I'm listening to all three dummy users in the bugzilla (librep, rep-gtk and > sawfish), so you can post your > bug-reports or feature-requests there, I'll get informed. If someone else > (Timo, Andrea or Teika?) wants to maintain > the bugzilla entr{y,ies} together with me, I can add you to the list of > developers. (You need a bgo account of course). I have a Gnome bugzilla account with some privileges, enough to close bugs or at least I had last time I checked, so I can help you there. > If there's anything else to discuss, just start a discussion :). > > About the DVCS discussion we had earlier, we'll talk again in january. > -- Andrea
