[Compcomm] Forum Decision

[Jeffrey Laramie]

On Thursday 10 May 2007 19:07, RYX wrote:
> What happens to compiz.org? Is it now deprecated? I don't understand how
> exactly the new forum is meant to integrate with the compiz-website

We would link to it the same way we link to the current compiz forum.

> And what do we do if the community has finally chosen a new name? Move
> everything again? Rename all forum topics? Rename the entire folders,
> files and comments in git? Rename all packages? The name "compcomm"
> appears so often that one could think it is meant to last forever.

There is no reason to change the physical locations of anything. Renaming the 
forum section titles is done from the phpbb3 administration control panel and 
takes a few minutes. The git repo displays the underlying directory names so 
changing the git folders is accomplished by a mv command, again in a few 
minutes. There are no compcomm named packages and I don't know why we would 
need to create any. The sooner we move past the forum issue the sooner we can 
select a permanent name.

>
> On the one hand people talk about no duplicated effort and on the other
> hand they do things over and over again - that is not the type of
> organization this project needs. The git-repo is a total mess, too.

Nobody ever said there would be no duplicated effort. I don't think there is 
any way for us to go from 100% duplicated effort to 0%. However the better we 
communicate and the more we work together, the less duplication we'll have. 
At this point we are only duplicating effort if we chose to.

> I don't want to complain all the time but I can't understand why we
> should simply accept getting a "compizified" beryl-project as new
> replacement for compiz. The current state of what some people refer to
> as "compcomm" is by no means acceptable as a full replacement.

I don't think CompComm is an acceptable replacement for anything yet. But we 
are only a month or so into this and we've wasted a lot of effort on flaming. 
We need to stop arguing and start building. Once we do that it will become 
apparent that nearly all of us have similar visions and goals.

Jeff