Re: Project Permafrost -- A Restoration Attempt

On Sun, 14 Nov 2010, mulenmar wrote:

> I've been working on something for a while now, and those of you who monitor the #icewm IRC channel on Freenode have heard about it already.
>
> It's something I've titled "Project Permafrost", as an excuse to make an ice-related pun. :P It's intended to address the few weaknesses IceWM has, such as the following:
>
> * The documentation is misorganized and incomplete, with empty sections in the manual, information on making themes scattered haphazardly between the IceWM manual and an even more atrocious Theming How-to, and incorrect info at several points. (Sorry, just the facts.)

I tried to update the docs for several year before. From that time and the 
time on I did not noticed a much of requests or patches for the 
documentation, nor a request for account to access it.

> * IceWM is on its third theme hosting site now, and each time a new one has been chosen is because the old one disappeared or deleted all the themes. The current site makes no effort whatsoever to make sure the themes don't violate trademark law, making it basically host to "illegal software." :roll:

This is acctualy not an icewm problem, icewm itself does not need any 
themes to be used and that's the responsibility of theme autor to maintain 
it. Sadly freshmeat droped the main hosting for icewm themes.

What leads personally myself to loosen the maintenance of docs and pages 
for icewm is sourceforge itself. I used it for years, but there is not a 
single year to pass and not to have any general problem to generate sites 
or import docs to CVS. First cron was disabled, and sites have to be 
updated manually, then problems with ever changing project address, cvs 
directories, shell server access etc.

Nevertheless I wish you a good luck and may active users (as there is 
never enought of them).

Adam Pribyl

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