[xmonad] xmonad 0.9 freeze, release schedule

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Fri Oct 23 13:37:27 EDT 2009


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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