Bug#821397: RFP: sway -- i3-compatible window manager for Wayland

[Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>]

On 2016-04-18  3:21 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Not neccessarily:
> 
> At first, sway will be uploaded to "unstable" and unstable is actually quite
> very uptodate. After some days and if it's free from bugs of severity
> "serious" and higher, it will automatically migrate to "testing".
> 
> So unstable and testing are actually usually quite uptodate and people run
> unstable and testing and they are used to create a number of popular
> derived distros, *buntu is one of them. So it's useful to have sway
> there and updated regularily.
> 
> And then, there will be a freeze of testing at the end of this year and
> then sometime next year testing will be declared "stable". stable is
> free of major changes (well, except for firefox and the kernel and
> some…) and in general only receives security fixes.

This sounds fairly sane.

> One easy way of preventing sway from being released as stable is to file
> a RC bug to prevent it from entering "testing".

Would be nice to prevent it from getting into stable prior to 1.0, but
post 1.0 I'm fine with it.

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Drew DeVault