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State-of-sway-December-2015.md (4989B)

    

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  2. # vim: tw=80
  3. date: 2015-12-20
  4. title: State of Sway - December 2015
  5. layout: post
  6. tags: [sway]
  7. ---
  9. I wrote sway's [initial commit](https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/commit/6a33e1e3cddac31b762e4376e29c03ccf8f92107)
  10. 4 months ago, on August 4th. At the time of writing, there are now 1,070 commits
  11. from 29 different authors, totalling 10,682 lines of C (and 1,176 lines of
  12. header files). This has been done over the course of 256 pull requests and 118
  13. issues. Of the 73 [i3 features we're
  14. tracking](https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/issues/2), 51 are now supported, and
  15. I've been using sway as my daily driver for a while now. Today, sway looks like
  16. this:
  18. [![](https://sr.ht/NCx_.png)](https://sr.ht/NCx_.png)
  20. For those who are new to the project, [sway](https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway)
  21. is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor. That is, your existing
  22. [i3](http://i3wm.org/) configuration file will work as-is on sway, and your
  23. keybindings will be the same and the colors and font configuration will be the
  24. same, and so on. It's i3, but on Wayland.
  26. Sway initially made the rounds on [/r/linux](https://redd.it/3he5hn) and
  27. [/r/i3wm](https://redd.it/3he48j) and
  28. [Phoronix](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wayland-i3-Sway-Tiling)
  29. on August 17th, 13 days after the initial commit. I was already dogfooding it by
  30. then, but now I'm actually using it 100% of the time, and I hear others have
  31. started to as well. What's happened since then? Well:
  33. * Floating windows
  34. * Multihead support
  35. * XDG compliant config
  36. * Fullscreen windows
  37. * gaps
  38. * IPC
  39. * Window criteria
  40. * 58 i3 commands and 1 command unique to sway
  41. * Wallpaper support
  42. * Resizing/moving tiled windows with the mouse
  43. * swaymsg, swaylock, **swaybar** as in i3-msg, i3lock, i3bar
  44. * Hundreds of bug fixes and small improvements
  46. Work on sway has also driven improvements in our dependencies, such as
  47. [wlc](https://github.com/Cloudef/wlc), which now has improved xwayland support,
  48. support for Wayland protocol extensions (which makes swaybg and swaylock and
  49. swaybar possible), and various bugfixes and small features added at the bequest
  50. of sway. Special thanks to Cloudef for helping us out with so many things!
  52. All of this is only possible thanks to the hard work of dozens of contributors.
  53. Here's the breakdown of **lines of code per author** for the top ten authors:
  55. <table class="table">
  56.     <tbody>
  57.         <tr><td>3516</td><td>Drew DeVault</td></tr>
  58.         <tr><td>2400</td><td>taiyu</td></tr>
  59.         <tr><td>1786</td><td>S. Christoffer Eliesen</td></tr>
  60.         <tr><td>1127</td><td>Mikkel Oscar Lyderik</td></tr>
  61.         <tr><td>720</td><td>Luminarys</td></tr>
  62.         <tr><td>534</td><td>minus</td></tr>
  63.         <tr><td>200</td><td>Christoph Gysin</td></tr>
  64.         <tr><td>121</td><td>Yacine Hmito</td></tr>
  65.         <tr><td>79</td><td>Kevin Hamacher</td></tr>
  66.     </tbody>
  67. </table>
  69. And here's the total **number of commits per author** for each of the top 10
  70. committers:
  72. <table class="table">
  73.     <tbody>
  74.         <tr><td>514</td><td> Drew DeVault</td></tr>
  75.         <tr><td>191</td><td> taiyu</td></tr>
  76.         <tr><td>102</td><td> S. Christoffer Eliesen</td></tr>
  77.         <tr><td>97</td><td> Luminarys</td></tr>
  78.         <tr><td>56</td><td> Mikkel Oscar Lyderik</td></tr>
  79.         <tr><td>46</td><td> Christoph Gysin</td></tr>
  80.         <tr><td>34</td><td> minus</td></tr>
  81.         <tr><td>9</td><td> Ben Boeckel</td></tr>
  82.         <tr><td>6</td><td> Half-Shot</td></tr>
  83.         <tr><td>6</td><td> jdiez17</td></tr>
  84.     </tbody>
  85. </table>
  87. As the maintainer of sway, *a lot* of what I do is reviewing and merging
  88. contributions from others. So these statistics change a bit if we use **number
  89. of commits per author, excluding merge commits**:
  91. <table class="table">
  92.     <tbody>
  93.         <tr><td>279</td><td> Drew DeVault</td></tr>
  94.         <tr><td>175</td><td> taiyu</td></tr>
  95.         <tr><td>102</td><td> S. Christoffer Eliesen</td></tr>
  96.         <tr><td>96</td><td> Luminarys</td></tr>
  97.         <tr><td>56</td><td> Mikkel Oscar Lyderik</td></tr>
  98.         <tr><td>46</td><td> Christoph Gysin</td></tr>
  99.         <tr><td>34</td><td> minus</td></tr>
  100.         <tr><td>9</td><td> Ben Boeckel</td></tr>
  101.         <tr><td>6</td><td> jdiez17</td></tr>
  102.         <tr><td>5</td><td> Yacine Hmito</td></tr>
  103.     </tbody>
  104. </table>
  106. These stats only cover the top ten in each, but there are more - check out the
  107. [full list](https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/graphs/contributors).
  109. So, what does this all mean for sway? Well, it's going very well. If you'd like
  110. to live on the edge, you can use sway right now and have a productive workflow.
  111. The important features that are missing include stacking and tabbed layouts, 
  112. window borders, and some features on the bar. I'm looking at starting up a beta
  113. when these features are finished. Come try out sway! Test it with us, open
  114. GitHub issues with your gripes and desires, and [chat
  115. with us on IRC](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=sway&uio=d4).
  117. *This blog post was composed from sway.*