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.
