TWM n00b history lesson

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 5/15/23 10:18, Graham Bentley wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Has anyone been around long enough to know how jim, keith and lemke
> managed to get their twmrc files included in the samples that come
> in the package?

They were all involved in X11 development back at the time those were
checked in (Dec 1989 - March 1990 according to the old source control
logs from the X Consortium).  Jim in particular was the one who
initially checked in the twm source to the X11 source trees.

> How would I go about getting my own twmrc included and to what
> rules etc would it have to comply with? 

I don't know that we have any process or rules, since no one has done
that in 33 years (and that was 2 or 3 organizations ago as well).

Any files would of course need to be licensed under the MIT/X11 license.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/doc/xorg-docs/-/blob/master/MAINTAINERS
lists Thomas Dickey as the current maintainer of twm, so it would probably
be up to him.  You might try submitting a merge request at
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/twm

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