[Compcomm] The Next Step

[Will Farrington]

The entire thing will utilize the Compiz core and will need that core to
be of any worth.

No one will be Emerald unless they're using Compiz.

etc, etc

There are a plethora of reasons why naming the forums the Compiz Forums
IS THE RIGHT IDEA. Listing them all would be a waste of time.

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 13:27 -0400, nesl247 wrote:
> Hmm. Why do I get the feeling that people who were working on beryl
> are getting the crap end of things here.. Everytime someone mentions
> the teams, people are left out of it.
> 
> I belonged to the Beryl Web and Release team. Being as I maintained
> beryl for gentoo, and found a lot of the build issues because I was
> one who doesn't have the same system as everyone else. Also, Saguratus
> and I tended to manage the forums (administration tasks, he did more
> moderating, I just stopped moderating because of time issues).
> 
> And please, stop calling the merged community compiz. It's not compiz.
> Compiz is the damn core, and nothing more. It's not "This week in
> compiz" or compizforums.org or whatever.
> 
> And iXce bought a domain something like opencompositing.org or
> something. I think we should just name the project the Open
> Compositing Window Manager. That's generic, fits the ideals, and we
> already have the domain then. As far as a shared git repo, it can be
> accessed at gitweb.opencompositing.org (whatever the domain is, as I
> said, forgot what it was exactly).
> 
> On 4/17/07, Jon Barnett <jonb at ieee.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm not anyone of importance, just a user but I think it would be a
> > "nice" thing for us users if the link to proposals and the plan forward
> > (I assume this will be whiteboarded at Rock3D.org?) were linked to at
> > our local hang-outs (beryl-project.org and compiz.org) until things get
> > cut over. Just a suggestion as other than joining this group, we haven't
> > had any feedback as to what is happening.
> >
> > It would also be nice to have some estimates on when things will happen
> > - and maybe this might be a bit of a wish this early, when things are
> > estimated to be completed. I'm not talking about hard deadlines, but
> > just enough rough information to give users an idea of what will be
> > happening and time-frames. And it doesn't necessarily have to be at the
> > low-level implementation - just some medium level implementation goals
> > for the sites and the working groups (I can see some of this is
> > coalescing now). I think some users are scared (about losing features),
> > some users are uncertain as to when development will get rolling again
> > (or whether their bugs will get resolved), some will be wondering
> > whether they should still be using the current forums or hanging off,
> > and some, if they're like me, are just milling about bleating - :). A
> > little re-assurance about moving forward would be wonderful.
> >
> > You can always revise goals and time-frames as things become better
> > defined (so the whiteboard "action plan" is just the current, working
> > plan at any point in time). Users just want to know what is happening
> > with their product and community - and don't necessarily care about the
> > technical level discussions :). The "This week in Compiz" idea would be
> > good now. :)
> >
> > I hope my comments aren't out of line in any way.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > JonB.
> >
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