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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:29:44 -0400
From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org>
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On 10/19/2013 12:24 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:14:51 -0400
> "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm worried about removing desktop-wm.  I think we need some new
>> developers in that direction.  I too am busy, but I think the best
>> use of my time might be mentoring new devs that want to pick up some
>> of the weak areas.
> With many disparate packages and because people tend to use a single
> window manager on a single machine at any time, developers dedicated to
> specific packages have always maintained the desktop-wm packages quite
> well in general. The current state with the herd removed reflects that
> better than with the herd still in place. Time will tell if some of the
> window managers are still being used or not and if maintaining them is
> useful.
>
>
>        jer
>
Okay thanks, that make me feel better.

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