[Compcomm] CompComm has a real name!

[Jeffrey Laramie]

On Wednesday 20 June 2007 17:12, Quinn Storm wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 June 2007 17:02:36 RYX wrote:
> > Only for my curiosity - opencompositing.org is now meant to be become
> > compiz-fusion.org? Or why has "compcomm" been changed to "Compiz Fusion"
> > everywhere? Wasn't it meant to become a general compositing-related
> > forum?
>
> I think (and hope) that the compiz-fusion "rename" only applies to
> (some/all) of the work that will be released as compiz-fusion (i.e. the
> compiz enhancements/etc.), as there's no reason for it to apply to anything
> else.
>
> I think the idea is that compcomm referred to what will now be
> compiz-fusion, while opencompositing (the site where compcomm was[is]
> hosted) is the umbrella group to handle general Free Software compositing,
> and so the rename is just for the compiz extensions, not
> opencompositing.org which is still to exist and to fulfill that mission.

Yes, this is how I understand it as well. Nothing has changed as far as the 
definition or scope of the reunited project: Compiz(-Extra) + Beryl = 
CompComm = Compiz Fusion. Opencompositing.org will be available to 
host/support compositing projects that are not specifically related to 
Compiz. iXce and onestone can describe the goals of opencompositing.org 
better than I can, but I don't think that it has any effect on what Compiz 
Fusion does.

The only potential question I see here is something that doesn't matter in 
today's discussion, but is something we as a community need to think about 
down the road. The original definition of Compiz Fusion included the 
possibility of including DE features. These programs would most likely not be 
specifically dependant on Compiz so there may eventually be a question about 
which project is more appropriate to host them. Again, none of those projects 
actually exist yet so this isn't a discussion we need to have now as far as I 
can see.

Jeff