[Compcomm] Forum Decision

[Danny Baumann]

Hi,

> >>> Bah, you know what I mean ;-)
> >>> Rephrased: Cedric now also uses git.opencompositing.org, so you and RYX
> >>> are the only active developers not using it.
> >>> Better?
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> Not really, the 'everyone else is doing it so you should too' argument
> >> never really held any weight for me anyway.
> >>     
> >
> > I never said that.
> >   
> 
> No, but thats the argument you are using.
> 
> Otherwise what does that mean?

I mean that IMO that number of repos (and thus release sources) should
be as small as possible to avoid user confusion.

> Check original post and subject ;)
> 
> We were going off topic, I was trying to bring it slightly more
> on topic.  It seems like you do not have any real objections other
> than I do not host in a public git repo, that is not the subject
> of discussion either, neither is packaging or anything else you
> have mentioned.

Constantly bringing along old, dusty arguments doesn't make the
discussion more on topic.

> I do not really understand why not hosting in a public git repo
> is such an issue, I would not be handing out write permissions
> like candy anyway.  

You can be pretty sure we won't do this.

> If you really want to help me and send a
> patch I can apply it for you, use the -git archive to work from.

I can't, but perhaps anyone else can.

> >> This has nothing to do with everyone using the same git repo, the
> >> compiz-extra tarball will always comprise of plugins taken from
> >> different locations and it should be built to accommodate that.
> >>     
> >
> > So you know EXACTLY the revision of the source files you packaged? You
> > have an EXACT repo tag? All releases of serious software I am aware of
> > have exactly that.
> >   
> 
> I do not really consider the python plugin to be serious yet,
> once it is I am sure I will know things like that.  But at the
> moment I have better things to do and nobody cares anyway.

> If someone really wanted to know which git tag was with each
> release then they could find out.  At the moment I am more
> interested in expanding the API.

You see the difference between your python plugin and your compiz-extra
tarball (mainly consisting of plugins written by other people)?

"the compiz-extra tarball will always comprise of plugins taken from
different locations"

vs. 

"I do not really consider the python plugin to be serious yet"

Action item: Find the contradiction!

Regards,

Danny