[Compcomm] A possible forum merge proposal

[Guillaume Seguin]

2007/4/26, Mike Dransfield <mike at blueroot.co.uk>:
> Guillaume Seguin wrote:
> > 2007/4/26, Stephen Moore <delfick755 at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> i can't remember where i said it, but it doesn't matter (probably in this
> >> thread somewhere close by, sorry if i repeat myself so soon after posting
> >> this....)
> >>
> >> get a team of people to work on a phpbb3 forum
> >>  and another team to work on a vb forum at the same time
> >>
> >> after a while, (few weeks/month/whatever) the team with the most problems
> >> stops what they're doing and helps the other team...
> >>
> >> it would waste effort, yes, but in theory it would stop the arguements, as
> >> this would prove which forum is better, both in terms of functionality and
> >> in terms of what suits our needs....
> >>
> >> .....*sees the future, expects logic to be turned upside down*........
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I have an idea.
> >
> > Lets get a team of people to work on a fork of compiz, call it "Beryl"
> > And then get a team to work on Compiz
> >
>
> You may be joking, but from my point of view it DOES look like
> a branch or a fork will be necessary sooner or later.  David has
> rejected the transparent cube patches.  I am not sure how much
> change to core is needed but they looked fairly large.
>
> David wants to redo the drawing interface before adding anything
> like transparent cube.  I suspect it will be a few months before that
> is done, in the meantime beryl users will be screaming for the lost
> feature.
>

They'll just use beryl, or something will be done in that sense. But
we (as the beryl developers group) aren't going to split again. Sorry.

> I am really not sure what will happen here, but its beginning to
> remind me of the xinerama patches.

The Xinerama patches never got a reply, there's a huge difference there ;)

> As other people have said, this
> is all WAY too early, hardly anything from beryl seems to be 'merged'
> yet.
>
Plugins are, libbs is being heavily worked on... It's not because you
aren't doing anything in that sense that noone is working.

But all this is absolutely not the topic of this thread. And please
don't tell me I have pushed you to talk about it, it was just a pure
example.