Justin Wheeler venit, vidit, dixit 2026-06-30 01:30:18: > Hello i3wm SIG & Fedora community, > > I'm reaching out to the SIG about the future of the Fedora i3 Spin as > we work through the Fedora Linux 45 release cycle. > > As some of you know, I was involved with the i3 SIG as a maintainer in its > earlier days, and I care a lot about the work this community has built > together. But I want to be honest about where things stand: active > maintenance of the Spin has been light in recent release cycles. We need to > determine if there are people ready to carry this forward, or if it's time > to make a graceful exit. > > > *## What needs to happen* > > The Fedora i3 Spin needs active maintainers to keep shipping.
Thanks for taking care of the i3 spin so far. I'm a former i3 user, current sway user, and I've never used a spin other than Workstation. This is no criticism of any of the spins, just a point of input that not every "niche DE" user is necessarily a spin user. OTOH, there's quite some value in maintaining the DE packages and, in particular, base config, even if there is no such spin. I know this is different for atomic variants, but I'm wondering whether i3/sway folks are really those who'd use a pre-baked atomic image, or rather a base for their own (bootc?) images. Speaking of the future: How much effort do we (does someone) want to put into a DE which requires an X11 stack? Michael -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
