[compiz] Patchs criterias

[David Reveman]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 20:21 +0200, Wulf C. Krueger wrote:
> Hallo Matthias!
> 
> "MH" == Matthias Hopf <mhopf at suse.de> writes:
> 
>  >> > If I were you, I'd just branch "officially" and compete.
>  MH> I would suggest to try hard to *not* do that.  Branching has always
>  MH> been the source for problems.
> 
> Tell that Emacs/XEmacs, egcs/gcc or XFree86/X.org X11. :-)
> 
>  >> > Reading this mailing list, a few others, Gentoo & Ubuntu forums,
>  >> etc.  > it seems pretty clear to me which version the users prefer >
>  >> currently. :-)
>  MH> Well, you're biased, so am I :-P
> 
> Actually, Matthias, I'm not. I'm not using Xgl/compiz anymore. While I
> used it, I constantly switched between both FDO CVS and Quinn's CVS. 
> I haven't coded a single line for Quinn's CVS either. :-)
> 
> One of the reasons to drop compiz is David's question/response ratio on
> this list. 

Yes, I know I've been pretty bad at responding to mail. Hopefully, I'll
have more time for this now. I'll try to be better at least.

> 
> Others include the fact that Xgl consumed up to 25% of my 2 GB RAM. :-)

I'm pretty good at making sure that Xgl itself isn't leaking any memory.
If you track down any memory leaks that are not caused by proprietary
drivers or compiz code that I'm not maintaining, please let me know.

> 
>  MH> David is typically producing code. Lots of high quality code.  
> 
> Yes, no doubt.
> 
>  MH> If he were chating as much as others (including me) do, compiz
>  MH> wouldn't be where it is now.
> 
> I'm not talking about chatting. I'm talking about meaningful
> communication. You know the questions I asked (thanks for your mail,
> btw, it was very helpful). Even a link or cut & paste would have been
> enough.
> 
> Anyway, it wasn't and it isn't my intention to bash anyone's work work
> any person. I'm just unhappy with the (lack of) communication. It
> discourages people to participate in something that has the potential to
> enrich the Linux desktop greatly (and make a difference for Novell/Suse)
> and that's really a shame.
> 

-David