[openbox] Openbox is not 'abandoned'

[D.T.]

First of all, I completely agree, OB is feature-complete and as long as
it works with all other components of your desktop there's no need to
fix anything.

But where are you seeing such claims on the Openbox website?
http://openbox.org redirects to http://openbox.org/wiki/Main_Page
and nowhere can I see a statement about it being abandoned.
Or are you suggesting it should explicitely state that Openbox is NOT
abandoned? That doesn't sound fishy at all... /s
A bigger problem is that the Openbox wiki doesn't have an SSL
certificate, because it's not only redditors but your browser shouting
"Insecure!" My remedy: no javascript on such sites. But I digress.

People need to understand that a simple Xorg window manager doesn't
need to be constantly updated to be "secure".
If they don't, well that's their problem, not mine.

And frankly, I also don't care about "increased adoption".

But thanks anyhow for pointing this out.

Cheers,
o.


On Sun, 2022-06-12 at 08:20 +0530, Samuel Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Openbox is considered by some people as being 'abandoned' (based on 
> release cycle).
> 
> However, I understand that it is considered feature complete, bug
> free 
> and a completed project with occasional maintenance done to keep it 
> working, but only if needed[1].
> 
> If true, could you please update this information in the official
> website.
> 
> Lot of (security conscious) people refrain from using unmaintained 
> software. Adding this sentence in website should increase adoption.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Samuel Johnson
> 
> [1] 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/openbox/comments/ngqz4s/comment/gyt19xd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
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