[Compcomm] The Next Step

[Will Farrington]

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 12:20 +0100, Mike Dransfield wrote:
> Will Farrington wrote:
> > Actually, I was perfectly content with Jeffrey's plans concerning site
> > migration. They were a good idea that not only managed to compromise but
> > still leave us with a usable solution.
> >   
> 
> It would leave us with some sort of half distro that nobody could
> support.  The whole composited community being a package of
> every app someone thinks is cool lumped together with no support
> at all is a dead end idea.

Please read more carefully what I wrote. I agree with his plans
concerning the _site_ migration; I don't agree with a lot of the
packaging/code items.

> 
> > Without getting off on my own tangential argument, I'll just state that
> > a new forum using vBulletin is warranted at the current time (and surely
> > even necessary in the near future). Of course, I still think it should
> > be under the Compiz domain (given the whole scope of the merge), but I'm
> > more than willing to concede to allowing it to be under a neutral domain
> > name. (Personally, I'm fond of http://www.compizforums.org/ , similar to
> > how Ubuntu Forums are in relation to the actual Ubuntu site.)
> >   
> 
> Are you suggesting we change the forum to vBulletin and
> then change the domain from http://forum.compiz.org/ to
> http://www.compizforums.org/ ?
> 
> What exactly is the reason for the domain name change?
> I can understand migrating to vBulletin, but that has nothing
> to do with 'merging communities' or 'creating composited desktop
> experiences'.

Considering it was agreed a while back that the forums for the new site,
being a COMMUNITY driven thing, would be assigned to a neutral server
and domain.

> What you are suggesting is nothing like Jeffs plan, that seems
> to be creating a new definition of something and a new name,
> forums etc etc.

It's closer than you give it credit.

> I really do not see the point or what we are hoping to achieve.
> Maybe its just a case (again) of just telling people what they
> want to hear for 6 months and hope they forget what you
> promised eventually.  If they remember, we can just change
> the name or direction again until the damn well forget.

In democracy, there's a philosophy of compromise to achieve the greatest
good. This merger isn't an exception.