[Compcomm] Forum Decision

[Danny Baumann]

Hi,

> > We all appreciate your hard work there, but it's hard to see the effort
> > needed for it if you do all work silently. Why on earth do you not use
> > one of the two publically available repos? If you really do not like
> > using git.opencompositing.org (getting commit access to it is a matter
> > of sending your SSH pubkey to Guillaume and time of way less than a day)
> > although e.g. Cedric already joined us there, please use at least
> > git.compiz.org. 
> >   
> 
> You must stop sounding like a cult.  'Cedric has already joined us' can 
> sound
> scary ;)

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?

> > And wanting to set up a git repo _after_ release doesn't really make
> > sense to me - noone can reproduce how it evolved and what's maybe left.
> > This does not only apply to the python plugins and the loader, but also
> > to all the other plugins of Mike - maybe some of us would already have
> > fixed those for latest git in this case ;-)
> >   
> 
> I set up a git repo ages ago but its only on my local hard drive, I dont
> see any real pressing reason to put it in a public repo yet, but I am sure
> I will one day.
> 
> For people interested I have just uploaded the recent version here
> 
> http://www.anykeysoftware.co.uk/compiz/plugins/python.tar.gz
> 
> I have included a log in that tarball so you can see all commits.
> 
> For people who want to contribute or branch it then there is an
> up to date git archive here.
> 
> http://www.anykeysoftware.co.uk/compiz/plugins/python-git.tar.gz
> 
> I do not want the extra support hassle of people checking out
> broken commits so I like to test things for a few days and then
> release a tarball which I know will be good.  The releases are every
> few days (sometimes more than once a day) and I normally bump
> the python thread when I have done anything major.

You sure can do anything you like, but the support argument isn't that
strong to me. You always can tell people "using git versions ===
unsupported".
What I'd like to see is just that we can release as many plugins as
possible as a common tarball to reduce clutter and user confusion. 

Regards,

Danny