Happy first birthday xmonad! On this day in 2007, Spencer comitted the first prototype code into our xmonad darcs repository, starting off a year long adventure that has been xmonad development. Tue Mar 6 17:35:27 PST 2007 Spencer Janssen * Initial import. We'd long been frustrated with the limits of dwm and wmii, and were looking to make a nicer, more extensible window manager. A year later, we seem to have pretty much accomplished those original goals! Some other nice commits from the early days. Tue Mar 6 22:42:23 PST 2007 Spencer Janssen * Plan for statusbar Tue Mar 6 22:45:39 PST 2007 Don Stewart * focus left and right (mod-j/mod-k) Wed Mar 7 03:12:47 PST 2007 Don Stewart * Add support for multiple workspaces Yes, that's right, for a day there xmonad only suppored one workspace :) Wed Mar 7 17:04:24 PST 2007 Don Stewart * Add Alt-Shift-[1..5], to move the current client to a new workspace 2 days after the first commit, our now extensive QuickCheck testsuite was in place, Thu Mar 8 04:05:21 PST 2007 Don Stewart * forgot to add Properties.hs Leading to 1000s of window manager tests now run on every commit! And building a culture of testing and reasoning -- we're perhaps the first window manager ever to use static analysis, type theory (the zipper structure!) and theorem proving to improve code quality! Since there there's been 7 releases, and thousands of commits. A total of more than 50 developers have contributed code. Thank you all! Looking back on the year, it feels amazing -- it doesn't feel like 12 months have past. With nearly 300 people on the mailing list here, 100 in the #xmonad irc channel, and binary packages for almost every distro. The extension library, which is now 8 times larger than xmonad itself, came as a big surprise, and turned out to be critical in keeping the project flexible and robust. Spencer and I are looking forward to another exciting year, with more great innovations in the extension suite, and improved flexibility in the core system. Let's keep tiling window manager innovation fresh and exciting! And thanks to all the developers who've made this possible: The current and former commiters, Spencer Janssen Don Stewart Devin Mullins Jason Creighton Andrea Rossato David Roundy Brent Yorgey Eric Mertens Braden Shepherdson Lukas Mai Roman Cheplyaka And all those who've contributed patches! Aaron Denney Adam Vogt Alec Berryman Alex Tarkovsky Alexandre Buisse Austin Seipp Brandon Allbery Chris Mears Christian Thiemann Clemens Fruhwirth Daniel Neri Daniel Wagner Dave Harrison David Glasser David Lazar Devin Mullins Dmitry Kurochkin Dougal Stanton Stefan O'Rear Ferenc Wagner Gwern Branwen Hans Philipp Annen Ivan Tarasov Jamie Webb Jeremy Apthorp Joachim Breitner Joachim Fasting Joe Thornber Joel Suovaniemi Juraj Hercek Kai Grossjohann Karsten Schoelzel Klaus Weidner Valery V. Vorot Mats Jansborg Matsuyama Tomohiro Michael Fellinger Michael Sloan Miikka Koskinen Neil Mitchell Nelson Elhage Nick Burlett Nicolas Pouillard Peter De Wachter Robert Marlow Roman Cheplyaka Sam Hughes Shachaf Ben-Kiki Shae Erisson Simon Peyton Jones And all the users for helpful feedback, but reports, screenshots, ideas, discussion and patience!