Is Sway Community Edition Still Actively Maintained?

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Hi Everyone,

I’m new here and I LOVE EOS. I’ve been bouncing back and forth between Sway Community Edition and I3-wm. Please forgive what might be a stupid question, but are community editions (like Sway) still actively maintained and updated? I’ve done both the “fetch custom file” and post installation script methods. I did notice that it didn’t update as often as, say, the native i3 edition. I’m totally fine with i3, but is Sway up to date and secure? Thanks to all :slight_smile:

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Welcome to the EndeavourOS forum. I hope you enjoy your time here.

Not all of the Community Editions are still maintained, but a EnOS user is currently maintaining Sway.

Perhaps he can better answer if Sway is up to date and secure.

Pudge

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The community editions define what packages and config files are installed. They take the building blocks and arrange them into a cohesive system.

The packages themselves are not managed by the community maintainer. They come directly from the repos and should always be updated and maintained.

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I guess it is not clear what updates you are specifically referring to, but as far as the actual Sway and i3 projects are concerned, Sway is more actively maintained and i3 development has slowed down quite a bit.

See for yourself, Sway is seeing commits every few days or weeks:

i3 will sometimes go for months at a time without any commits.

That is not to say one is better than the other or anything like that, it is only to mention that i3 is generally the more slow moving project of these two from a development standpoint.

I also use both Sway and i3. In general I prefer Sway, but I also use i3 quite a bit in VMware (Sway has been kind of broken in VMware for a long time :smiling_face_with_tear:).

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Thank you all. I’m going to run the install script again and get sway on my machine :slight_smile:

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Thanks!