[compiz] Re: compiz developers

[Colin Guthrie]

Solerman Kaplon replied to me directly but I think the reply was meant 
of the list. Either way his analogy is a good one IMO.

Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 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 :)

I think a good analogy is that Quinn's version is like Andrew Morton 
kernel tree. Lots of (experimental) things goes there, but it doesn't 
mean they will go as is to the main kernel. Eg: they may need some 
massaging, or need a rewrite, but gives a good place for ppl to test and 
try these.

Solerman