[Compcomm] A possible forum merge proposal

[Mike Dransfield]

Guillaume Seguin wrote:
> 2007/4/26, Mike Dransfield <mike at blueroot.co.uk>:
>   
>> Guillaume Seguin wrote:
>>     
>>> 2007/4/26, Stephen Moore <delfick755 at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> i can't remember where i said it, but it doesn't matter (probably in this
>>>> thread somewhere close by, sorry if i repeat myself so soon after posting
>>>> this....)
>>>>
>>>> get a team of people to work on a phpbb3 forum
>>>>  and another team to work on a vb forum at the same time
>>>>
>>>> after a while, (few weeks/month/whatever) the team with the most problems
>>>> stops what they're doing and helps the other team...
>>>>
>>>> it would waste effort, yes, but in theory it would stop the arguements, as
>>>> this would prove which forum is better, both in terms of functionality and
>>>> in terms of what suits our needs....
>>>>
>>>> .....*sees the future, expects logic to be turned upside down*........
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I have an idea.
>>>
>>> Lets get a team of people to work on a fork of compiz, call it "Beryl"
>>> And then get a team to work on Compiz
>>>
>>>       
>> You may be joking, but from my point of view it DOES look like
>> a branch or a fork will be necessary sooner or later.  David has
>> rejected the transparent cube patches.  I am not sure how much
>> change to core is needed but they looked fairly large.
>>
>> David wants to redo the drawing interface before adding anything
>> like transparent cube.  I suspect it will be a few months before that
>> is done, in the meantime beryl users will be screaming for the lost
>> feature.
>>
>>     
>
> They'll just use beryl, or something will be done in that sense. But
> we (as the beryl developers group) aren't going to split again. Sorry.
>   

Beryl will be unsupported in 6 months wont it?

If not then you will need to keep the forums up and running so
any talk of merging forums and making them read-only.

Do you expect the new forum to support beryl and compiz?

>   
>> I am really not sure what will happen here, but its beginning to
>> remind me of the xinerama patches.
>>     
>
> The Xinerama patches never got a reply, there's a huge difference there ;)
>   


He didn't reply to your original posts, maybe because they
were in html format.

Either way, someone else bumped the subject a few weeks later
and here is the reply.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/compiz/2006-June/000282.html

;)

>> As other people have said, this
>> is all WAY too early, hardly anything from beryl seems to be 'merged'
>> yet.
>>
>>     
> Plugins are, libbs is being heavily worked on... It's not because you
> aren't doing anything in that sense that noone is working.
>
>   

libbs and bcop seem to have some useful features which David
is taking on board.  I do not think he is prepared to accept libbs
or bcop and he is implementing the features independently.

The two people who seem to be working on the merge are David
and onestone, but like I said, not a lot is getting through to the
core.

> But all this is absolutely not the topic of this thread. And please
> don't tell me I have pushed you to talk about it, it was just a pure
> example.
>   

My answer to 'lets create a new forum for the new software
and make all posts read-only because nothing applies to the
new software' is there is no sign that the code merge will happen
any day soon.  Especially once you consider the minor fixes and
features and fixes.  Everyone seems to be only concerned with
the plugins, libbs and then creating a new forum.

What about the actual reality of what this forum will be
supporting?  Will it be another compiz-quinn 'branch'?


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