[Compcomm] The Next Step

[Jeffrey Laramie]

On Tuesday 17 April 2007 09:17, RYX wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 17.04.2007, 13:29 +0200 schrieb Guillaume Seguin:
> > Mike, it's obvious that you don't want that this merge (merge of the
> > two communities in a new one, not integration of beryl community in
> > compiz community) actually happens, so why do you continue arguing
> > there? You disagree, that's ok, but either you accept the idea that
> > your own commitee voted 3 vs 2 for the merge or you just let it go...
>
> I hate picking this up but you are wrong - the decision was definetly
> not "3 vs 2 for the merge". In fact David always said he not really
> wants to be involved in all the merge-discussion and -decision.
> Basically the situation was "2.5 vs 1.5 against the merge".

David's public e-mail spells out everyone's positions accurately. There is no 
point in us trying to re-interpret this now. Let's move on.

> All we have to do (from my point of view) would be organizing ourselves
> into smaller teams, wire up some communication-system (forum/list/...)
> for the teams and then start getting productive ...
>
> Why can't we just stop thinking about tomorrow and the day after
> tomorrow and instead work on today's tasks?
>
> The WEB-team focuses on the website-discussion and -improvement, the
> COREDEV-team focuses on improving the core (they even have their own
> list already and I think this works well), the PLUGDEV-team focuses on
> porting/improving/inventing old/new plugins, the APPDEV-team creates a
> settingsTool/pluginIfaceForDecorator/startupManager, the DOC-team gets
> its ass up and writes down good developer/user-documentation ...

As I said earlier, I think this is a good idea. I think we may want to start 
with just a few teams. We can always add team or split teams in the future if 
we need to. I'll incorporate this into the transition plan.

Jeff