[Compcomm] A possible forum merge proposal

[Mike Dransfield]

Stephen Moore wrote:
> yes, why has it become unorganised ??
>
> is there anyone in charge anymore ??
>
> (if there ever was anyone in charge)

This is the whole problem here and why I want nothing to do with it.

Beryl had no leadership or direction and they turned a good thing to
trash within a few months.  I do not want that to happen again.

If you want to debate whether beryl has become trash, dont bother.


>
> On 4/27/07, *Sam Spilsbury* < smspillaz at gmail.com 
> <mailto:smspillaz at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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 <http://opencompositing.org>? The developers
>     should post there what they are working on.
>
>
>     On 4/27/07, *Mike Dransfield* < mike at blueroot.co.uk
>     <mailto:mike at blueroot.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>         Guillaume Seguin wrote:
>         > 2007/4/26, Stephen Moore <delfick755 at gmail.com
>         <mailto: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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