Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is XMonad still developed or with a current maintainer?

6 Nov 2012

      The point is, I think it would be beneficial for XMonad to merge efforts in
one one point.
For this reason I've contacted Adam (the current maintainer) and asked him
if I could co-maintain XMonad.
The point is trying to make all our efforts in only one point. This is an
excerpt of what I've told him:

Thanks for the quick reply. if you would like to, we can co-maintain
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Xmonad. I've been using it for six months now and became such an invaluable
tool that Os X aqua interface sucks when I use it :)
I will be pretty busy until the end of the year, because I just landed a
new job abroad and I'm in the process of relocating, bUt i'll have plenty
of spare time this winter to hack on Xmonad.
I have great plans for our lovely window manager, including:
1) a new website, the current is nice but too geeky and "old". Capturing
user interest through a cool website is very important imho
2) move Xmonad repo to github. this may sound heretical, but a lot of
people (me included) are put off by Darcs. Git and github is such an
effective tool that can't be ignored any longer. Furthermore, there is a
lot of hype this days for osxmonad, which apparently build upon Xmonad,
reusing it as much as possible. They are on github too. Working thightly
with them we could create a family of product, with a bulk core
(microkernel) and different adaption layer according to the Os (linux
rather then mac os x)
Your fork could be a starting point, we could merge everything under one,
centralized repo on github, switching for a user based account to an
organization profile (XMonadWM or simply XMonad are two possible names, for
example).

As soon as I get a reply for Adam I'll inform you!

Bye!
A.

On 6 November 2012 12:23, Johan Brinch  wrote:
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looking at the Darcs repo it seems that something is happening, but
XMonad
wasn't updated in a year on Hackage and everything seems to be still.
Is XMonad still actively developed? If yes, who is the current
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Alfredo Di Napoli
 wrote:
maintainer?
...
It would be good to have him listed in the Hackage package description,
in
order to contact him.
Atm there is one generic email that seems not to be read very often :)
Me and a couple others from the University of Copenhagen are running a
fork of both XMonad and XMonadContrib here:
https://github.com/reenberg/xmonad
https://github.com/reenberg/XMonadContrib
Jesper Reenberg is in charge and we're patching bugs in our spare
time. We're both running this version daily (it's not bug free, but
it's stable "enough").
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Johan Brinch