This whole thread seems a bit of a minefield, but as I'm still reading compiz-list, I figured I'd weigh in. I hadn't realized the situation had gotten so bad, with so many developers leaving, especially after all the enthusiasm a year and a half ago. I'm currently unemployed and in a position to perhaps have some time available for this (though I would have to find a linux box, oddly enough), so I am willing to come in and help however I can, as you might imagine this project means a lot to me, but don't get me wrong, i don't want to just come back after a year and a half and go "right, now I'll run it", that'd be awful of me. I just want to offer whatever help I can. Its only projects like this that will let us ever outpace OSX & Windows in the GUI sphere.
--Quinn Storm On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 10:33 AM, imnotpc <imno...@ubaight.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 31 December 2008 17:39:56 Sam Spilsbury wrote: >> So I probably look naive being the only one to reply to this post, and >> add my ideas about this issue, however I do feel that it's been >> plaguing the entire project for quite some time. > > Sam and Kristian have stated things about as accurately as you can. The root > problem is that Compiz and Beryl each had imperfect but functional management > structures. The reunited community has no organizational structure at all. > Like Sam said, things get discussed on the forum or IRC then nothing happens > until individuals or small groups just do what they want. I don't see any > point in re-hashing how we got that way, but the bottom line is that we've > lost most of the Beryl/Compiz-Fusion devs and all the compiz devs as well as > many contributors such as myself. Something needs to be done if > Compiz/Compiz-Fusion is to remain relevant. > > I wish I had a good solution. I tried for 6 months to bring some structure and > organization to the community but got nowhere. I hoped that someone with more > community support would take the lead. Sam and others have worked to keep the > community together, but the same problems remain. > > I don't know if there is anything I can do to help, or if you even want my > help, but I'm willing to talk about solutions and go from there. > > Jeff > _______________________________________________ > compiz mailing list > compiz@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz > _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list compiz@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz
