[Compcomm] A possible forum merge proposal

[Stephen Moore]

yes, why has it become unorganised ??

is there anyone in charge anymore ??

(if there ever was anyone in charge)

On 4/27/07, Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Um, the feature isnt going to be lost. Cube transparency will just become
> a plugin in the meantime
>
> I really think that the whole project has fallen in a hole. I remeber the
> good old days where everything worked and everyhthing was in one place and
> Beryl kept on gettting better and better.
>
> Now everything has become one disorganised mess with plugins being thrown
> everywhere, people deleting forums and litteraly trying to fight for
> supremacy in the "merge" or "re-union."
>
> Yes, I_know work is_being_done but its so disorganised at the momement,
> Nobody knows what each other is working on.
>
> If anyone here can remember the "Developer sign-up page" can they post the
> link on the main website of compiz and opencompositing.org? The developers
> should post there what they are working on.
>
> On 4/27/07, Mike Dransfield <mike at blueroot.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I am really not sure what will happen here, but its beginning to
> > remind me of the xinerama patches.  As other people have said, this
> > is all WAY too early, hardly anything from beryl seems to be 'merged'
> > yet.
> >
> >
> > > And after a.. erm nevermind ;)
> > >
> > > But this will help you imagine how hard it'd be to decide which team
> > > would help the other one ;)
> > > (please note that there's absolutely no offence against anyone in this
> > > post, it's just the best example to show that having two teams merging
> > > to work on one thing which is even just a bit different than what they
> >
> > > were working on is definitely hard)
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Guillaume
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