xmonad 0.9 freeze, release schedule
We're preparing the long-awaited release of xmonad 0.9! Here's the time-table: - Thursday, Oct 22: repository freeze - Friday, Oct 23: release candidate packaged and published - Sunday, Oct 25: xmonad 0.9 release The feature freeze takes place immediately. Until the 0.9 release, please apply only documentation, important bug fixes, and packaging changes to the repositories. Between now and Sunday, we'll be working on a release announcement. Please reply with any important new features, bug fixes and compatibility notes that you'd like to see in this announcement. Thanks, xmonad team
spencerjanssen:
We're preparing the long-awaited release of xmonad 0.9! Here's the time-table:
- Thursday, Oct 22: repository freeze - Friday, Oct 23: release candidate packaged and published - Sunday, Oct 25: xmonad 0.9 release
The feature freeze takes place immediately. Until the 0.9 release, please apply only documentation, important bug fixes, and packaging changes to the repositories.
Between now and Sunday, we'll be working on a release announcement. Please reply with any important new features, bug fixes and compatibility notes that you'd like to see in this announcement.
Also, testing!! GHC 6.12 RC testing, GHC 6.6 (?) testing. Distro testing.... testing. -- Don P.S. testing.
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 04:26:56PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
Also, testing!! GHC 6.12 RC testing, GHC 6.6 (?) testing. Distro testing.... testing.
-- Don
P.S. testing.
If 6.12 is to be tested, someone needs to come forward and volunteer. I believe xmonad hasn't worked on GHC 6.6 for some time now. Anyway, that release is so old that I think we don't need to support it anymore. Cheers, Spencer Janssen
spencerjanssen:
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 04:26:56PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
Also, testing!! GHC 6.12 RC testing, GHC 6.6 (?) testing. Distro testing.... testing.
-- Don
P.S. testing.
If 6.12 is to be tested, someone needs to come forward and volunteer.
I volunteer to test the RC against 6.12RC1
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 06:22:21PM -0500, Spencer Janssen said
We're preparing the long-awaited release of xmonad 0.9! Here's the time-table:
- Thursday, Oct 22: repository freeze - Friday, Oct 23: release candidate packaged and published - Sunday, Oct 25: xmonad 0.9 release
The feature freeze takes place immediately. Until the 0.9 release, please apply only documentation, important bug fixes, and packaging changes to the repositories.
Between now and Sunday, we'll be working on a release announcement. Please reply with any important new features, bug fixes and compatibility notes that you'd like to see in this announcement.
Could we get the fix for issue 177 in for 0.9? Basically any java/swing apps don't work right without it and evidently things like on-screen keyboards too. Thanks, Geoff Reedy
Thanks, xmonad team _______________________________________________ xmonad mailing list xmonad@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/xmonad
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 06:20:52PM -0600, Geoff Reedy wrote:
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 06:22:21PM -0500, Spencer Janssen said
We're preparing the long-awaited release of xmonad 0.9! Here's the time-table:
- Thursday, Oct 22: repository freeze - Friday, Oct 23: release candidate packaged and published - Sunday, Oct 25: xmonad 0.9 release
The feature freeze takes place immediately. Until the 0.9 release, please apply only documentation, important bug fixes, and packaging changes to the repositories.
Between now and Sunday, we'll be working on a release announcement. Please reply with any important new features, bug fixes and compatibility notes that you'd like to see in this announcement.
Could we get the fix for issue 177 in for 0.9? Basically any java/swing apps don't work right without it and evidently things like on-screen keyboards too.
Thanks, Geoff Reedy
I think that the implications of this patch are too significant to apply right before a release. Adam Vogt made an animated gif [1] that demonstrates one oustanding issue. The bullets window has xmonad focus, but another window has keyboard focus, we need a better solution there. We will be applying this patch (perhaps with some tweaks) immediately after the 0.9 release. If the changes aren't too extensive, we'll make a 0.9.1 bugfix release so users don't have to wait for 1.0. Cheers, Spencer Janssen [1] http://omploader.org/vMmxtbQ/out.gif
* On Thursday, October 22 2009, Spencer Janssen wrote:
We're preparing the long-awaited release of xmonad 0.9! Here's the time-table:
- Thursday, Oct 22: repository freeze - Friday, Oct 23: release candidate packaged and published - Sunday, Oct 25: xmonad 0.9 release
The feature freeze takes place immediately. Until the 0.9 release, please apply only documentation, important bug fixes, and packaging changes to the repositories.
Between now and Sunday, we'll be working on a release announcement. Please reply with any important new features, bug fixes and compatibility notes that you'd like to see in this announcement.
Thanks, xmonad team
Out of the patches pending for core, I think these ones are seriously worth
considering:
20090516104753: Fix for Tall documentation by Khudyakov Alexey
Excerpts from Adam Vogt's message of Thu Oct 22 18:23:14 -0600 2009:
* On Thursday, October 22 2009, Spencer Janssen wrote:
We're preparing the long-awaited release of xmonad 0.9! Here's the time-table:
- Thursday, Oct 22: repository freeze - Friday, Oct 23: release candidate packaged and published - Sunday, Oct 25: xmonad 0.9 release
The feature freeze takes place immediately. Until the 0.9 release, please apply only documentation, important bug fixes, and packaging changes to the repositories.
Between now and Sunday, we'll be working on a release announcement. Please reply with any important new features, bug fixes and compatibility notes that you'd like to see in this announcement.
Thanks, xmonad team
If we don't apply the patch described in [1] then it is very important to describe the addition of the ewmhDesktopsStartup for users upgrading from darcs.
[1] http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2009-October/008884.html
I've sent a patch to man/xmonad.hs adding notes to EwmhDesktops users, see [2]. Also the notable changes page on the xmonad wiki [3] has notes about this with example recommended solution and links to code.haskell.org EwmhDesktops source for more detail. As soon as 0.9 haddocks go up I'll update links to point to that instead. Will also update the config-archive page on the wiki. Ewmh breakage is discussed at the top of the page under the "Updates that require changes in xmonad.hs" section and also under the "Updated modules" EwmhDesktops item. Please let me know if any of this documentation needs improvement and ensure that these notes (or some better version) get committed to man/xmonad.hs to be distributed with xmonad source. thanks, [2] http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2009-October/008897.html [3] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Notable_changes_since_0.8 -- wmw
Hi! On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 06:22:21PM -0500, Spencer Janssen wrote:
We're preparing the long-awaited release of xmonad 0.9! Here's the time-table:
- Thursday, Oct 22: repository freeze - Friday, Oct 23: release candidate packaged and published - Sunday, Oct 25: xmonad 0.9 release
Woa, that manifested quickly. I suppose it would be hard to persuade you to push this schedule back a week or two? So that I would have a chance to work on the remaining Bluetile-related patches and Bluetile could then be build from a released xmonad version? Mostly only to big chunks remain: Bluetile's floating layout and enhanced, multi-screen-aware decoration. However, to be honest, those might be changes that one doesn't want close to a release. It will require at least Daniel's extensible state patch in the core and maybe a tweak here and there that would probably need to be discussed first. So how do you feel about this? Wait for 1.0? But that will probably not be in a long time, will it? Regards, Jan
Hi, Am Freitag, den 23.10.2009, 10:00 +0200 schrieb Jan Vornberger:
So how do you feel about this? Wait for 1.0? But that will probably not be in a long time, will it?
how about releasing 0.9 now, but allowing for a 0.10 release as soon as the bluetile related patches are in and tested, even if it would be soon that the “regular” release schedule would predict? Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner mail: mail@joachim-breitner.de | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Key: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org
Jan.Vornberger:
Hi!
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 06:22:21PM -0500, Spencer Janssen wrote:
We're preparing the long-awaited release of xmonad 0.9! Here's the time-table:
- Thursday, Oct 22: repository freeze - Friday, Oct 23: release candidate packaged and published - Sunday, Oct 25: xmonad 0.9 release
Woa, that manifested quickly. I suppose it would be hard to persuade you to push this schedule back a week or two? So that I would have a chance to work on the remaining Bluetile-related patches and Bluetile could then be build from a released xmonad version?
Mostly only to big chunks remain: Bluetile's floating layout and enhanced, multi-screen-aware decoration. However, to be honest, those might be changes that one doesn't want close to a release. It will require at least Daniel's extensible state patch in the core and maybe a tweak here and there that would probably need to be discussed first.
So how do you feel about this? Wait for 1.0? But that will probably not be in a long time, will it?
We decided to keep pushing with the bluetile patches after the release. Please keep them coming! -- Don
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