[FusionComm] 2 divisions or 2 projects?

RYX ryx at ryxperience.com
Tue Jul 10 14:23:12 CEST 2007


Hi there!

Yet again I came across a post where one of us said that compiz and
compiz fusion are "2 divisions/projects within the same community" ...

So what are we? Are we 2 divisions within one project (and one
community) or are we two projects with a (somehow) overlapping
community? I think "divisions/projects" is paradox - it is either one or
the other ...

It is so incredibly annoying that we can't have just ONE definition of
what we are instead of everyone having his very own idea of it ... Can't
you see that this creates exactly the confusion people tried to warn
about?

Someone even created a "fusion-icon" - whatever that may be ... I assume
it is some notification-icon for launching compiz (which is btw a big
no-go from the standard's perspective, maybe someone on oc.o should
start caring for what the users do ...).

Next week there are maybe "fusion"-packages ... the week after next week
they start renaming ccs to cfs (and then to fs) ... and so on ... until
people say: "look at my fusion desktop, it is so much better than compiz
or beryl were" ...

The other side of the medal is that there are many fusion-related
bug-reports on compiz.org but nobody of the "fusion-devs" cares about
it ... likely because they don't feel responsible for "compiz fusion"
things on compiz.org and prefer the oc.o forums for being the place to
inform/support users about/with compiz and compiz fusion (if anyone
informs the users at all) ... ha ha ha ...

We should finally come up with a definition of what we are. If we are
two projects then I don't feel that much involved in the fusion part for
some reason, if we are two divisions then we should start acting like
one project instead of everyone doing what he/she likes.

best regards

Rico




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