Jan.Vornberger:
Hey!
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 05:53:29PM -0600, Spencer Janssen wrote:
In the past we've saved all new features for major releases, with these releases fairly far apart. The next major release of xmonad is 1.0, which is potentially months away considering some of the things we have in mind. My hunch is that you'd rather not wait so long.
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We could make a minor release as soon as 1-2 weeks, with more releases on a monthly basis as needed.
Your hunch is right. :-) But a timeframe of 1-2 weeks sounds great.
I do think we ought to have XMonad.Config.Bluetile. I'm certain that at least some Bluetile users will want to configure it a bit, so we'll need an upgrade path.
I agree, so I just pushed two patches, one of them containing XMonad.Config.Bluetile and the other BluetileCommands, which I previously mentioned is used to remote-control Bluetile.
So the only thing not in xmonad-contrib is now the dock application, which won't go in anyway, because of the gtk2hs dependency. But except for that, with XMonad.Config.Bluetile you can now get pretty much the same thing as with the 'real' Bluetile, providing a good upgrade path.
Judging from the discussion, I feel that most people agree with me that Bluetile should continue to exist as a separat project to be able to provide the easiest possible installation process. So it would be great if a 0.9.1 minor release of xmonad and xmonad-contrib could be made, to allow for Bluetile to be packaged.
Combined with XMonad.Contrib.Bluetile it is then an easy step for Bluetile users to switch to xmonad should they want to start tinkering with the configuration.
This sounds like a great approach. We should decide how the projects refer to each other. I'd like to strengthen our joint communities, rather than fragment them. (Which I think will mean sharing as many resources as make sense, and have cross-cutting components (such as bluetile modules in XMC). -- Don