[Compcomm] A funny situation

[Mike Dransfield]

CyberOrg wrote:
> On 6/18/07, Magnus Boman <captain.magnus at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 08:49 -0400, Adam Kirchhoff wrote:
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>>> On Monday 18 June 2007 08:15:18 RYX wrote:
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>>>> Imagine this "funny" situation:
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>> 1: Compiz is published for everyone to use
>> 2: Someone decided to fork the project and call it Beryl
>> 3: Decision is made to merge back with the Compiz dev's
>>
>> Now, you tell me where the place to be is... Would it be Compiz, Beryl
>> or some xxx-project? (Hint: Look at 1 and 3 above)
>>
>>     
>
> I am not at all happy with what all is going on, what was once a
> thriving community has become bunch of folks fighting(putting it
> mildly) over a smallest thing.
>   
Me neither, but if you look beneath the fighting, there
is at least some small glimmer of cooperation.
> Surely many potential users and developers have more friendly and
> constructive projects to take their contribution/participation to.
>   
Its fairly hard to do anything community based without
the support of the community.
> Thankfully Compiz will be available to end users through their
> distributions no matter what goes on here.
>   
Yes that is true, and just for the record you can package
any of my plugins (or the ones I just maintain) however you
feel is best.

The only one which I have a preference over is python which
I would like packaged by itself as compiz-python for
various reasons which I will not bore you with.

> -J
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