[FusionDev] Release

[Sam Spilsbury]

On 8/11/07, Kristian Lyngstøl <kristian at bohemians.org> wrote:
>
> On 8/11/07, Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ok, these changes have been made. The only thing we need is for us to
> polish
> > the release announce (on obby), make a 'moving from beryl' guide, do a
> > spellcheck on the metadata and make sure that packages have been made...
> >
> > Are we ready?
> >
> > Info about obby : Download gobby (http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/)
> > Server : obby.opencompositing.org
> > Port : 6522
> > PW : octeam
>
> I'd like to see a release asap too, I think we're mostly ready.
>
> I'd like to wait for 0.6.0 though, 0.5.2 being a dev release.
> Considering the xcb stuff that won't be in 0.6.0 it seems to me that
> 0.6.0 will be ready soon enough.


The problem is that we need to get 0.6.0 out as _stable_ asap for that to
happen. Otherwise we will have to base on 0.5.2


But that's no reason for us not to prepare this of course.
>
> I have one issue though; the wrapper script.
>
> I'd like to move my compiz-manager script into a more central/official
> repo and get proper feedback without getting 20 different forks of it
> (it's a pain, to be honest, to be sent a rewrite of your own code
> instead of ideas on how to improve it or patches). Any objections
> against this?


To be honest, your wrapper script is actually a bit slow when it comes to
starting compiz. I don't know why, it just is. I know that fusion-icon is
written in python and it seems to handle starting compiz quite well. For
some reason I don't agree on making it a bash script as it seems to have
problems when using gnome-autostart. I figure a python script or a binary
exec that does the system checking stuff would be good. Maybe just install
it as 'cfusion' or something so I don't have to write a bazillion guides on
how to start compiz on every configuration.


Also, I think it makes sense to use a version number independent of
> Compiz, to signify that we are not the same thing. Stuff like ccs and
> most of these new plugins  are, well, new, and since these bits are
> what Compiz Fusion really is, it makes sense to me to use a different
> version range.


Yes, thats right. Also, listening to Mark Shuttleworth's great advice about
how all OSS projects should have a predictable release cycle, I think maybe
we need to decide that now. Perhaps a minor release every month and a major
every 6 months?


Regards,
> Kristian
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