[compiz] Re: compiz developers

[Colin Guthrie]

Mauricio Henriquez wrote:
> Hi Colin Gutrie:
>  
> Thanks for your repply about alt-gr problem.
>  
> And great!!!! I'm also a developer (opengl developer), so I very happy 
> to find a developer list of compiz...I'm working in some ideas for 
> pluggins (for now only in a opengl format without nothing about compiz 
> or xgl), so I very interesting in work with you, is this posible??, 
> please guide me on this...what I have to do to set a box for development 
> on compiz?? (official cvs repository, compilationlanguage, etc), please 
> if yuo guide me on this I can relly help you, I have severall ideas but 
> I dont know how to integrate this ideas into compiz or xgl..pluggin?, 
> how?, documentation?, etc...

Well, I'm by no means a compiz developer. I'd like to be but just 
haven't got the time due to other projects I am currently commited to.

If you want to work on compiz tho' and discuss your ideas for new 
plugins etc. the best place is either this list or the forums over at 
http://www.compiz.net/ - this is the home of the Quinn Compiz semi-fork 
of compiz which has many user submitted modifications to compiz to make 
it do more fancy stuff NOW!! We all know an appreciate that David et. 
al. have larger plans for Xgl/Compiz and while it has really been quite 
amazing that so many people have wanted to make compiz better, a lot of 
their contributions do not fit right now with the direction of the main 
program, hense why the Quinn Compiz version was created. It's not really 
a fork, as it tries to keep up to date with the vanilla version too, 
it's more like a "instant gratification" branch :)

So if you've got new plugins etc. it is quite likely that they will be 
adopted into the QUinn version.

Go along to the forums and introduce yourself and you'll soon get to 
know who the big contributers over there are.

Anyone think this is bad advice? I hope not. David, do you think this is 
the correct pointer for new people/do you approve etc.?

Col.