[Compcomm] The Next Step

[Guillaume Seguin]

2007/4/17, RYX <ryx at ryxperience.com>:
> Am Dienstag, den 17.04.2007, 13:29 +0200 schrieb Guillaume Seguin:
> > Mike, it's obvious that you don't want that this merge (merge of the
> > two communities in a new one, not integration of beryl community in
> > compiz community) actually happens, so why do you continue arguing
> > there? You disagree, that's ok, but either you accept the idea that
> > your own commitee voted 3 vs 2 for the merge or you just let it go...
> I hate picking this up but you are wrong - the decision was definetly
> not "3 vs 2 for the merge". In fact David always said he not really
> wants to be involved in all the merge-discussion and -decision.
> Basically the situation was "2.5 vs 1.5 against the merge".
>

You meant 2.5, right?

> Currently we have a situation where I (personally) am looking forward to
> work with all of you and I think it is highly counterproductive to throw
> out announcement after anouncement. Obviously this only leads to more
> ongoing conflicts (examples Guillaume/Mike, Kristian/Me).
>

There's no conflict between Mike and me, I'm an ass and that's all.

> All we have to do (from my point of view) would be organizing ourselves
> into smaller teams, wire up some communication-system (forum/list/...)
> for the teams and then start getting productive ...
>

Yeah let's just do that (that's what we (the former beryl guys) have
been asking for weeks...). Let's get some lists and let those who want
to work together do it.

> Why can't we just stop thinking about tomorrow and the day after
> tomorrow and instead work on today's tasks?
>
Maybe because some want a long-term plan? But you're right, future
doesn't matter when there's nothing to build a future on.

> The WEB-team focuses on the website-discussion and -improvement, the
> COREDEV-team focuses on improving the core (they even have their own
> list already and I think this works well), the PLUGDEV-team focuses on
> porting/improving/inventing old/new plugins, the APPDEV-team creates a
> settingsTool/pluginIfaceForDecorator/startupManager, the DOC-team gets
> its ass up and writes down good developer/user-documentation ...
>
Agreed.

> Whenever a team needs something from another team, two elected
> team-"speakers" should handle that (to avoid accidentally having two
> "opponents" needing to work with another :D).
>
I'm not sure that we need that, but it would be just ok if it's needed
at the end.

> Once again: if we behave like little children we should try to use
> kindergarten-tactics to handle us and get us to work ;) ... And, as you
> all may remember, in kindergarten/school they use to form small groups
> to increase productivity and reduce the "noise".
>
Beautiful comparison :)

Best regards,
Guillaume