James Griffin wrote:
> !-- On Sat 7.Sep'13 at 22:46:45 BST, Thomas Adam (tho...@fvwm.org),
wrote:
>
>> Oh well.
>>
>> Note that I am not in any way interested in discussing the merits of
forums
>> versus mailing lists and vice versa. I just want the responsibility
taken
>> away from me completely ASAP.
>
> You've missed the point. I couldn't give a shit about mailing lists
> and/or forums and which is better. I'm saying there won't be anyone to
> ask questions to, apart from Dan. It seems like the beginning of the end
> of the fvwm2.
It looks like ...
> You said on the OpenBSD mailing list some weeks ago you were the main
> developer for fvwm - so who's going to develop it now?
Dan Espen
Dominik Vogt
...
And a few contributors like me.
One point is that it's hard to come in in this elitist club of
conservatives. If anyone has an idea to change something or extend a
part it comes 'why?', 'That's not needed' or 'FVWM must work with old
distributions' ... never change a running system ...
Examples:
Gtk1, Groff to Asciidoc, Debian installation, Python, CVS to Git,
FvwmScript extensions.
Another point is if anyone sends something to the mailing list e.g. a
module, no feedback comes back.
The same is with projects like FVWM-Crystal or Fvwm-Nightshade. They
will be ignored - for whatever reason - allthough they show what FVWM
can do and gives a start point for FVWM newbies.
On the other hand is the FVWM community ... it is not that small but
as Thomas Adam said:
'Past cries for someone to use that documentation to improve the man
page has fallen on deaf ears. No one has done this yet. Patches
welcome.'
Does any patches come? ... No.
> I'm saying there won't be anyone to ask questions to, apart from Dan.
> It seems like the beginning of the end of the fvwm2.
On the mailing list - mostly. But not on the forum.
Best,
Thomas aka TF and main developer of Fvwm-Nightshade
