What is CompComm?

[5ER]

What is CompComm?
And what is Git?

[Jupiter]

CompComm = Composite Community
This is the temporary name of our community as we move forward
with the merge of compiz and beryl.

Git = GNU Interactive Tools
Tool used to manage our repo.
http://www.gnu.org/software/git/


Please try and use descriptive title post rather than a generic one word title.

[cornelius]

Actually that is another git ;)
Disambiguation page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git

[d_garbage]

This is a VERY interesting if a little controversial question! But, what does compcomm mean to you?

To me, it is a project and community that is forming around a suite of plugins for Compiz, which turns that very solid, respectable software project into a pimped-up eye-candy-fest of visual mayhem. A place for wild and crazy ideas to romp around, allowing those clever people who can write programs (I can't) to try stuff out. And the poeple who use them to figure out just how to get them to work! But that's just what I think it is, from what bits and pieces of information I could pick up around the place. This is a gloriously messy thing and should be very creative. :D Heh.

And if you want to see how the state of play is with the new name, head on over to the "name poll" its a long thread but well worth a read, especially after sunday when the poll got all controvetial in itself.

Its all a great example of what people can do to come together while not all being the same. 8-)

Go Compcomm! (temporary name!)
:D

[delfick]

in a single sentence, compComm (or whatever it is called) is the community extending compiz

[d_garbage]

Here's a great quote on the subject from the name poll thread (viewtopic.php?f=46&t=559&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=400 (http://forums.opencompositing.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=559&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=400)):



[...]May I cite a post from iXce? (viewtopic.php?f=46&t=588&p=4386&hilit=#p4386 (http://forums.opencompositing.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=588&p=4386&hilit=#p4386))
Well, I have a kind of plan for the web services that'd need to be somehow approved, but I fear it might raise new flames...
The global idea was to use opencompositing as a central place where people using things like compiz, compcomm or kiba-doc could find help through the common forums.
The opencompositing.org website would be a portal pointing to the different project pages and services (homepages/wikis, bug trackers, blogs...). It'll also feature it's own bugtracker, where other projects could be handled as well.
The *unknownname* website would be a wiki just like the compiz.org one. Developer blogs, official blog and a planet should also be there.
opencompositing.org doesn't need to conflict with the interests of the forums hosted at compiz.org. In fact, as per imnotpc's latest post (I just refreshed the page), opencompositing.org seems to complement the intention to create a site where users and developers interact.

I don't think it's a significant stretch of the imagination to say that opencompositing.org doesn't fit the definition of a project home page. Information concerning git, Bugzilla, packages, documentation, features lists, screenshot galleries, etc. are highly decentralised, and almost everything posted here takes a tone that facilitates discussion, unlike the sort of announcements or statements that would normally adorn a project home page.

On the other hand, opencompositing.org has evolved into a very community-oriented site in a short time, seemingly naturally and with very little formal direction. In less than 2 months, we already have a number of regular posters nearing that of compiz'org's forums. Unlike the explicitly Compiz-oriented theme of compiz.org (if only by virtue of its name), opencompositing.org embraces anything related to technologies involved in desktop compositing, and what can be done with them. I'm not sure how to explain it, but I don't think I'm unique in feeling that the 'mood' of this site feels more social and open-air than compiz.org's forums. It's as though people here are acting in less of a 'scripted' way, more like a casual social gathering. (A casual glance at Compiz reveals an abundance of highly concise, detailed posts that seem well-thought enough to be presentations in their own right; that doesn't feel as much like a forum to me.)

It has been suggested that the Compiz community be given its own sub-forum on compiz.org, but on a community site, the community should take centre stage. That is what we have here.

opencompositing.org is not necessarily representative of either Compiz-Core or Compiz-Extras. It's representative of the people who use it, and the developers who wish to stay in touch with their users.

[delfick]

[quote:3b755]It has been suggested that the Compiz community be given its own sub-forum on compiz.org, but on a community site, the community should take centre stage. That is what we have here[/quote:3b755]

the compiz.org site is community operated :D