Re: icewm releases

On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Dag B wrote:

> On 09/25/13 00:08, Frank wrote:
>>      The downside to all this....is that probably sooner rather than
>> later some distros
>> are going to drop IceWm from their support...probably as soon as some larger
>> problem presents itself.  I have watched as other non-maintained
>> software gets
>> pushed to the wayside. Unfortunate, but a fact of life.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>
> (I added icewm-devel)
>
>
> This is what I fear as well. Icewm may be feature complete (as some
> people claim), but with no maintainer it is sooner or later going to
> break properly. There is something called ongoing maintenance. For this
> reason, I posted this on Slashdot a a week or so ago:
>
> http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/09/14/1815250/ask-slashdot-attracting-developers-to-abandonware
>
> There was a lot of off-topic crap in the slashdot thread linked to
> above, but some had useful suggestions. Like revamping the website and
> issuing a new release with accumulated patches and perhaps a new, shiny
> theme. Anyone up for it? There is a lot of low-hanging fruit. So much,
> in fact, that it may require some effort.  :-)


I am the author and maintainer of the "website". Even thou I understand 
the commenters point of view, I do not think making a site bigger that the 
WM itself would help a lot. My aim designing the website was to stick to 
IceWM values - simple, speedy and providing what's needed. Acctually if 
anybody interested, there are my proposals I made 10 years ago

  http://sandbox.cz/~covex/icewm/icewm.html
  http://sandbox.cz/~covex/icewm/icewm2x.html

Marko had choosen the second one and made it even more simple.

But if anybody things the website needs any update, I'll try to find my 
credentials to access the site and we can to some updates.

> Dag B

Adam Pribyl

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