Till Hofmann <thofmann(a)fedoraproject.org> writes:
Hi Eduard,
On 5/15/20 12:21 AM, Eduard Lucena wrote:
>
> As others have already mentioned in the thread: we should look into
> joining forces with the sway SIG (which I am also a member of).
>
>
> It's not a bad idea, but TBH, I still want to stay away from Wayland.
>
> While a lot of the packages of interest are not really shared, the
> general
> similarity would allow us to save a lot of time when it comes to QA and
> the creation of a spin. Maybe we should merge into the tilling window
> manager SIG? (with a better name of course).
>
>
> Well, we can join effort for packaging but produce different Spins, why
> not? wdyt?
>
It's nice to see more interest in i3! But I'm not sure that joining
efforts is such a good idea. While sway and i3 may be very similar from
a user perspective, they are not from a packager's perspective. Also,
while you don't really care about sway, I don't have much interest in
i3. So what exactly would a joined SIG do? All the work would be either
towards i3 or sway, I don't see any synergetic effects of a joint SIG.
The main synergy would be the potential creation of a sway Fedora spin
as the QA effort could be mostly shared. Besides that, there is a small
overlap of a few applications that work both on Wayland and Xorg like
alacritty. But the main synergy would be imho a in a sway spin, if that
is something we want tackle.