Confused

[mahler]

Why are there so many places to talk about Compiz and Compiz Fusion?
There is a "Community Forums"-category and a "Compiz Fusion" category...
What is the difference?

[Jupiter]

Why are there so many places to talk about Compiz and Compiz Fusion?
There is a "Community Forums"-category and a "Compiz Fusion" category...
What is the difference?

I think the categories explain it well. Key word being "core". Compiz is the core
and it has some built in plugins. Compiz-fusion is a set of enhancements, including
plugins and apps that work with the Compiz core.

[code:9b06f]Compiz
Discussion about Compiz and the core plugins [/code:9b06f]
[code:9b06f]
Compiz Fusion
Discuss the Compiz Fusion project[/code:9b06f]

[Deciare]

There is some disagreement as to exactly which forum serves which purpose, but here is my understanding of opencompositing.org's current organisation.

Everything under the Compiz Fusion category is for specific discussions about installing, developing, or making Compiz Fusion do what you want. It seems a lot like questions-and-answers that focus on one idea at a time.

Everything under the Community Discussion category is for less specific questions, ideas, declarations, rants, gloating, conversations, whatever. The direction of the project as a whole, stories of what you can do or have done with Linux and compositing, weird jokes, driver compatibility issues, fan mail, hate mail, the whole bit.

That doesn't look like how it's working in practice, and I don't worry very much about categories anyway, so I just use the [url=http://forums.opencompositing.org/search.php?search_id=active_topics:37e54]View active topics[/url:37e54] link. ;)

[mahler]

There is some disagreement as to exactly which forum serves which purpose, but here is my understanding of opencompositing.org's current organisation.

Everything under the Compiz Fusion category is for specific discussions about installing, developing, or making Compiz Fusion do what you want. It seems a lot like questions-and-answers that focus on one idea at a time.

Everything under the Community Discussion category is for less specific questions, ideas, declarations, rants, gloating, conversations, whatever. The direction of the project as a whole, stories of what you can do or have done with Linux and compositing, weird jokes, driver compatibility issues, fan mail, hate mail, the whole bit.

That doesn't look like how it's working in practice, and I don't worry very much about categories anyway, so I just use the [url=http://forums.opencompositing.org/search.php?search_id=active_topics:d4323]View active topics[/url:d4323] link. ;)
I appreciate your answer, but if the Community Discussion category is for questions & ideas,
then what are the Compiz Fusion Q&A / Ideas & Feature Requests in the Compiz Fusion for?

You could argue, that the Community Discussion would be about "core" as Jupiter proposes,
but then why is there a special Compiz Fusion forum :?:

And why make a special forum about a product and then a specific forum for the community. Isn't everybody on this forum part of the community?

[Deciare]

I think the major distinction between Compiz Fusion and Community Discussion is specific ideas versus general ideas. An idea for a new plugin feature is not quite the same scope as an idea to pre-configure certain Compiz plugins in ways that would benefit the visually impaired, then installing that preset configuration into computers to be given to a community centre.

I understand that the distinction isn't always clear, though, which is why I don't usually worry about categories. I go where the conversations take me...

If you need to stay organised to be comfortable, then I'm afraid I won't be much help. ;)

[Jupiter]

Community Discussion is for general discussion "general talk about the community".
Compiz Fusion Q&A is for trouble shooting problems.
Ideas & Feature Requests is for discussing ideas and making feature request.

This was done intentional so that we can keep support threads separate from
general community discussions. I think the titles of these sections may need to
be better defined. That is something we should maybe pay attention to as we
migrate to the new name.