[Compcomm] A possible forum merge proposal

[Sam Spilsbury]

Um, the feature isnt going to be lost. Cube transparency will just become a
plugin in the meantime

I really think that the whole project has fallen in a hole. I remeber the
good old days where everything worked and everyhthing was in one place and
Beryl kept on gettting better and better.

Now everything has become one disorganised mess with plugins being thrown
everywhere, people deleting forums and litteraly trying to fight for
supremacy in the "merge" or "re-union."

Yes, I_know work is_being_done but its so disorganised at the momement,
Nobody knows what each other is working on.

If anyone here can remember the "Developer sign-up page" can they post the
link on the main website of compiz and opencompositing.org? The developers
should post there what they are working on.

On 4/27/07, Mike Dransfield <mike at blueroot.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> I am really not sure what will happen here, but its beginning to
> remind me of the xinerama patches.  As other people have said, this
> is all WAY too early, hardly anything from beryl seems to be 'merged'
> yet.
>
>
> > And after a.. erm nevermind ;)
> >
> > But this will help you imagine how hard it'd be to decide which team
> > would help the other one ;)
> > (please note that there's absolutely no offence against anyone in this
> > post, it's just the best example to show that having two teams merging
> > to work on one thing which is even just a bit different than what they
> > were working on is definitely hard)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Guillaume
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