[compiz] Compiz Community

[Jeffrey Laramie]

On Wednesday 08 November 2006 14:30, Mike Dransfield wrote:
> Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm new to compiz and to this list but I'd like to contribute. I couldn't
> > find a more appropriate place to ask a few questions about the compiz
> > project (which is actually my first question).
> >
> > 1. Since the apparent compiz/beryl fork I don't see a compiz "community"
> > site. Is there one?
>
> The compiz.biz site is looking good at the moment,  many thanks to Ben.
> I particularly like the open box mod to the old cube.
>

Yes, I like it too. Referencing the cube, flexible panes, Pandora's box kinda 
image...

> > 2. Is compiz going to continue to be developed, and if so, is there a
> > road map for future development/migration?
>
> Compiz has always been in development, in fact today we see 2 new
> very interesting plugins.  Hopefully everyone can put forward their ideas
> for Compiz direction.  I personally feel that most of the core is fairly
> done,
> any new developments can be confined to plugins.  I will brain dump onto
> the forums about my thoughts as soon as I have the time.
>
> > 3. There was some discussion on the beryl site over the last few days and
> > it appears that Guillaume has agreed to stop redirecting the compiz sites
> > to beryl. Is he also releasing the ownership of the compiz.net and
> > compiz.org domains? Is anyone following up on that? Are there plans to
> > launch a new compiz site?
>
> I am not sure if he is prepared to transfer the domains over, I think he
> might
> be.

They may have changed their minds about returning the domains. The 
re-direction message is back on compiz.org and they appear to have a new 
compiz forum shell on compiz.net. I personally have nothing at stake here but 
it seems odd to have one branch of a fork manage the community site for the 
other branch.

> I am available to work out a transfer, although I would rather it 
> was transfered
> to David.  David, would you be prepared to accept ownership of the domain?

Makes sense if Guillaume and David agree.

>
> > I'm afraid my coding skills are too weak to help compiz development, but
> > I could help with documentation, web page maintenance, and other less
> > technical tasks. Let me know if I can help.
>
> I am trying to put my ideas for the general direction.  I think  the
> overall aim of the
> site should be to encourage and help developers to write their own
> plugins.  If we
> can help new developers to write plugins then there will be plenty to
> attract
> new users.  Once there are guidelines in place for what people want,
> then a todo
> list can be formed.  I feel that most of the input from users has been
> given in the
> Beryl forums.  We should work towards implementing these plugins, each one
> should be discussed in the forums before coding so that they can
> incorporate the
> most features.
>
> I would like to apologise for my ranting in the past, I promise you will
> see a more
> positive side of me from now on.

I'm taking a wild guess that you might be the infamous "mikedee"? I bet you 
used to poke hornet nests with a stick when you were little, didn't you. 
<grin> It looks like the project is alive and well but the community is 
rebuilding from scratch. Unfortunate, but it also provides an opportunity to 
build it they way you (collectively) want it.