Hi, dear sawfish lovers. Thank you for your words. On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 19:42:12 +0200, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote: >> I wonder if you could prepare, say, a checklist of release >> procedure. > > Well, this checklist does (imaginarly) exist, but is not failsafe > [...] But of course you're right, that this should not happen again.
I see, thank you for your effort. >> Just a delay of two weeks or so can make [news readability] far >> better. > I'm sorry Teika, I wanted to do the release finally, as it already > delayed 4/5 weeks. [...] 1.6.0 is definitively to be released on > the 22nd of December, so feature freeze is end of November and we can > then better handle stuff like that. Deadline makes the progress, yes, but why do you care so much? Is gnome inter-operatability related? There're (almost) always competition between release earliness and quality, and the solution depends. Anyway, we learn from experience. So let's hope that we'll do better next time. >> Popularity is the power. Some reports, what's good and bad (or bugs). >> They help. Some subscribe ML. A few contribute in ML. A few of few >> develops. >> >> Anyway, thanks a lot for all. I was happy when I knew Sawfish was >> resurrected. Now we see a boom come. Another will come. > > A boom? You mean much more Sawfish users? Sorry, but if you're thinking > this way, I think you're wrong: You're right. I meant zoom, gee, wow, by "boom" ;) > Oh well, and in the last half year there have more unsubscriptions than > subscriptions, but more users are monitoring librep/rep-gtk/sawfish on > sf.net, the IRC is pratically dead (I only have had 2 (in words: two) > discussions there the last half year), so I would say: The userbase did > not change that much. This is I, and perhaps many wanted to know. Not great, but not bad. > This may sound pesimistic, but: I absolutely don't care how many users > are using Sawfish, for me it's the Ultimate Windowmanager, regardless > of anyone else, so you don't have to fear to get rid of me :p Chris and I don't share taste here, but Chris' attitude is one of what promotes free softwares. (Of course I agree it's best-of-best.) Regards, Teika (Teika kazura)
