[Compcomm] My ideas (for the record)

[Mike Dransfield]

Robert Carr wrote:
> On 6/14/07, Mike Dransfield <mike at blueroot.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>> Robert Carr wrote:
>>     
>>> There is when an extras package implements nearly 100% of the actual
>>> user visible functionality, and another group could create an entirely
>>> seperate extras package with separate functionality.
>>>
>>>       
>> Are you seriously trying to say that if you disable the following
>> plugins you will have somewhere near 50% of your original
>> functionality left?
>>
>> By most people's standards, the computer would be non functional
>> without these.
>>
>> png, svg, regex, place, decoration, move, resize, wobbly, cube,
>> rotate, water, blur, scale, switcher
>>
>>     
> As we've discussed many times these are moving to part of what you
> call the 'extras' project as opposed to Compiz-fdo and my comment was
> based on that assumption.
>   

I have never called anything the 'extras project' - it does not
make sense.

There was a package called compiz-extra (which I did not make)
and there was discussion about how we could package plugins
which complimented compiz.  Some people mistook the name
of a simple tarball with a project, then went off and started
creating these communities without actually thinking them
through.

People keep saying 'oh thats core' but there is no point in having
one forum/community for 'core' and one for other stuff, and
another for other plugins.

All of the 'core' discussion and development is done on the mailing
list and always will be.

If you want to separate people based on whether they have
contributed to core then you will be pushing out a lot of the (beryl)
developers too.


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