On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 03:57:42PM +0200, Laslo Hunhold wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 15:30:05 +0200 > Anselm R Garbe <garb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey Anselm, > > > Second, one goal of the slackathon is also to streamline the project > > landscape of suckless.org, which also means we should presumably > > define 3-4 clusters that will be addressed during the event and > > identify all areas that are well established and don't need much care > > during the slackathon. In particular I would see the following > > clusters: > > > > i) improvements to suckless.org and our general project setup (switch > > to quark, stagit, static swerc, git://, streamline all projects, drop > > drop-candidates, etc) >
The stagit hook and additional scripts are almost finished. > it is a good setting to discuss this there. There are quite a few > projects and pages on the website with questionable properties. > > > iii) focus on totally new stuff like the issue tracking, Silvans > > patchwork idea or mail archiver I don't think we should use an issue tracker. I can see there will be endless useless bug reports with fontconfig issues already. Instead user expectations should be changed. > Yes, sltar should be removed anyway. The tar in sbase has many > improvements over it and sltar has some pretty dangerous bugs. I agree. > As much as I'd love to see a greater adoption, I must admit that in my > humble opinion Gopher is dead. Even if we served suckless.org with The web is dead. > Gopher, it would not change this fact and would just be a waste of time > spent more productively on other things. You forget one important aspect of hacking: fun. > However, if there is a trivial solution to serve suckless.org as a > gopher service (as we can see e.g. with stagit-gopher), I have no > objections to do so. > Gopher won't work 1:1 for the www pages, but can work for git.suckless.org > I think I'll plan to work on quark, the website, and show you what I've > already sketched up w.r.t. the GUI stuff. > > > Potential drop candidates: > > > > > * sandy > > Let me add 2wm, dmc, dws, sltar. We might also think about moving all > those little X-utilities into one repo. > > > Personally I tend towards the clusters i) (50%) and iv) (40%) to spend > > time on, and perhaps providing some guidance on the ld-wrapper idea > > (10%). > > Yes, that sounds like a great idea. I won't be able to help with the > ld-wrapper, but as we can already see, there's enough work to fill an > entire fortnight. > I'll be on IRC. Some ideas I'm interested in atm: - random bugfixes. - quark - stagit/git repos. - surf adblock plugin (WIP). - st sixel support (WIP). -- Kind regards, Hiltjo
