Sawfish website revisted

["Jonathan Koren" <jonathankoren hotmail com>]

I've followed the discussions about the horribly out of date website and 
documentation, and the confederacy of sites (e.g. the wiki, 1.3 
documentation site, etc.) that have sprung up to fix this problem.   I've 
lurked on this mailing list for several years now, and I'm going to make a 
bold suggestion.  I think we (the active sawfish community) should create a 
new sourceforge project named "sawfish".  I AM NOT PROPOSING A FORK, but 
rather simply finishing the job JSH started six years ago this coming April, 
when he changed the name from "sawmill" to "sawfish".

I think that this would help aleviate the perception that sawfish is a dead 
project.  It's strange when the project is called one thing, but the main 
url is something else entirely.  The mailing list has already been changed 
(The webpage currently lists both sawfish-list and sawmill-list.  Sawmill is 
located in the "Bugs" section.), along with the bugzilla database, but the 
cvs tree still is refered to by the old name.  I don't know how much work 
this would require though, but I think it needs to be done.  A useful 
side-effect of creating a new project with the proper name of the project is 
that the listed developers/admins of the website can be redistributed to 
more active people.

The website definately needs to be updated.  Adding links to the wiki and 
the 1.3 documentation is nice, but it's not as good as having all that 
information in one place.  The news section hasn't been updated since 0.32.  
According to sourceforge, there hasn't been an official release since March 
24, 2003.  Infrequent mailing list traffic.  All of this contributes to the 
impression of an abandoned project.

I know there's only so much a window manager can do, and that sawfish is a 
mature project.  What is required for a new release?  Should sawfish support 
cairo in the future?  It would be nice if there would be a roadmap or 
something.  If JSH can't or doesn't want to be the main developer for 
sawfish, it would be ever so nice if he would tell the mailing list what's 
up.

I don't want to sound like I'm whining or saying that JSH should do more, 
but I do think that a post to the mailing list about the future would be 
great.

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