On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Sebastien Bacher <[email protected]> wrote: > (What is happening with compiz has little to do with Mir.) > Canonical is focussing work on the next generation components but that > shouldn't "hurt" compiz in any away. Sure it means Canonical will help less > on landing changes, but nothing stop the community to > write/review/test/merge work on compiz. > > It's not "blocked by Raring", or do you mean "it missed the feature freeze > and will not land this cycle in Ubuntu"? (which is not specific to compiz, > Ubuntu is having cycles with feature freezes for ever)
You must know who is Sam Spilsbury, right? He somehow ranted on you once by commentary. https://philipballew.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/confessions-of-a-community-member/#comment-287 But as I checked LP, he is still proposing branches. > Not sure about what random websites are writing (sorry no time/interest to > read the troll sites) but the situation is: > - Ubuntu raring is feature frozen > - Changes need to be reviewed/tested/approved to land > - Compiz has an history of being a fragile piece of code, fixes often have > side effects, so we are cautious about landing non trivial patches late in > the cycle > - The current manpower is limited and people in the desktop team focussed on > other things > - Raring ships a raring branch of compiz, nothing stops the patch to land in > compiz trunk and users/ppas/other distros to run that version, if you do the > testing will probably help to build confidence in the patch and maybe get it > to land in Ubuntu A bit sad that you call Phoronix troll-site... -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
