[compiz] Patchs criterias

[Matthias Hopf]

On Jun 25, 06 02:04:36 -0400, Quinn Storm wrote:
> I've wanted to avoid an "official fork" as long as possible, feeling
> that it could in the end work against everyone's best interest, but
> this all depends on the upstream (freedesktop.org/novell) developers.

Quinn, we were at the end of SLES/SLED 10 development cycle. During
that, bug fixes for SLED have the highest priority, so I assume David
will answer soon (as we're reaching product release date soon).

Getting a CVS account for X.org is not that complicated. However, you
should only commit yourself into a particular tree, if the maintainer
agrees. That is basically David's decision.

Maybe compiz is moved to git soon, in that case having multiple
repositories is easily possible, and merging is much less pain.

> I realize their goals probably differ somewhat from mine / those of us
> who work through compiz.net, which has lead to the divergence.  If it

I don't really think so. As compiz is composed of plugins, alternative
plugins should be possible. So if the goals for a particular plugin are
too different to be solved in a single source fragment, only the
particular plugin should be forked (inside the same repository).

> updates)  Also, I want to point out, another potential issue with the
> current freedesktop codebase is that (and this is NOT something I know
> for sure) the novell team MIGHT want to keep it dual-licensed, and not
> everyone wants to submit to something under those terms. (I myself am a
> GPL gal, but am somewhat flexible if it is necessary)

AFAIR this is not a Novell thing, but David wanted the code to be as
freely adaptable as possible. Or it was necessary for X.org, but I'm
not quite sure.

> > If I were you, I'd just branch "officially" and compete.

I would suggest to try hard to *not* do that.
Branching has always been the source for problems.

> > Reading this mailing list, a few others, Gentoo & Ubuntu forums, etc.
> > it seems pretty clear to me which version the users prefer
> > currently. :-)

Well, you're biased, so am I :-P

> > I'd love to know, too. Never got an answer to questions concerning the
> > future development on- or off-list from one of the official devs.
> > Other users were very helpful (but couldn't answer all my questions)
> > but the rest was silence.

David is typically producing code. Lots of high quality code.
If he were chating as much as others (including me) do, compiz wouldn't
be where it is now.

Just a reminder

Matthias

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