Plugins ownership

[iznogood]

Hello everyone,

I have a question for anyone who cares to answer...

Who is (or will be) responsible for the plugins code...I mean people are sending patches, making changes but who is to decide if a patch is correct and should be merged??? Mikedee is checking the code frequently but i doubt that he can do all the work himself. Also sometimes people might have different opinions on what piece of code is (works) best, since very few(if any) has deep know-how of X and OpenGL. Finally people might send changes that fix stuff but also might break other things...

So who is going to have a last word on what is to be merged on compiz-extra?? I consider this importand since there is a large number of plugins that needs constant maintainance, so that the code can keep working well and improve in quality.There are many plugins that remain broken and no-one is working on them but also sometimes people are submiting changes that fix something but break something else(it happened to me, but to others also, just check the state plugin thread).Also its important because people can learn from their mistakes and improve, but someone has to tell them about these mistakes

Any thoughts???

[mikedee]

Its a very good question. I dont know enough myself.

My idea is that patches will be committed to a developer repository where they can be checked by other people. Once we have plugins to a state that we think is OK it would be really nice if David or another real expert could look at them to correct any obvious errors, its not essential but it would be nice. Things are very busy for David at the moment, but hopefully when things are a bit quieter we could submit various plugins for some sort of seal of approval (subject to his agreement obviously ;))

Code quality doesn't matter as much as for core, so some of it will be a learning experience :)

[iznogood]

ok sounds good to me...