Martin Dietze wrote: > Sure but there needs to be some idea how patches go into some > repository, i.e. somebody needs to be in charge.
That is the core question! > I'm fine with git, and technically prefer it to mercurial (which > is terrible at branching anyway), but there should be some > idea how and when changes from your repo go into the main one. Indeed, that is the central point. And thinking more about it I don't think there is an easy solution now, nor that it depends on me or on you :-( I don't have legitimacy to maintain anything under the "Window Maker" name, unless Alfredo or Dan agree that the git repo could be called Window Maker (Cc:ed them now). If they were reading the mailing list for the last year they perhaps will know that I want to stick with the window manager philosophy and not go into the desktop kind of crazy things and also not go wild patching things ad nauseam just for fun. [ Window Maker is the only manager I've been using since 2000, and I care so much about the efficient workflow I obtain with it that I consider a computer without wmaker (like the ones in my institute) to not be usable, because I would have to start pressing buttons here and there etc. So it would be the last thing I would do to spoil that. ] But I think that what they agreed (implicitly or explicitly, I don't remember), was that John would maintain a stable repo collecting fixes floating around the distros etc, that would be released as the 1.0 version. What the plans are beyond that I don't know. (if I am wrong I am sure someone will correct me) But I think this 1.0 version is long overdue already. >> Would that be ok? That is the help I can provide, besides >> trying to review patches and testing them. > > I'd be fine with it. It is good that so many people have > submitted patches during the last few months but to my > knowlecdge there has not been any source for the current > source tree with all or most of these patches applied. The "problem" is that some of those patches were adding features, like the "half screen maximize" or the "advanced switchpanel" thing. So John could not apply them to the stable repo and they now are in some limbo state, not dead but not living. That is a pity, because it does not motivate people to continue tweaking wmaker (note that I say "tweaking"). To summarize, I can mantain "something" like my git repo and I have some free time and I am willing to accept people patches in a timely manner _if_ they make sense in the wmaker way of life. And I would do it with humbleness, because I am still not familiar with the code etc. But bug fixes with good changelogs and things that I can test myself are easy to cope with. But if Alfredo or Dan do not trust me to keep doing this under the name of Window Maker, it will keep being just my private repo. However I will continue to try to agitate this mailing list trying to keep things alive when patches appear on it :-) -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
