Re: Beryl Maintainer

[David Nusinow <dnusinow@speakeasy.net>]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 04:34:24PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:00:48AM -0400, David Nusinow <dnusinow@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:38:39AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:55:30AM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 14 February 2007 00:27, Anibal Avelar wrote:
> > > > > Hi. I see you have in queue NEW three packages: beryl-plugins,
> > > > > beryl-settings and emerald [1] and not ready (yet) beryl.
> > > > 
> > > > Firstly,  the beryl packages were REJECTED because of license issues. Upstream 
> > > > is working with me on resolving the non-free/license issues that remain these 
> > > > will be fixed for the 0.2.0 stable release of Beryl  (coming soon).
> > > 
> > > >From their homepage:
> > > Mar 14: 0.2.0 Released
> > > 
> > > But they also already have 0.2.1 versions available.
> > 
> > If someone wants to work on Beryl and help us out, that'd be great. Shawn
> > seems to have gotten frustrated with the project, and I've been looking to
> > recruit someone to work on it.
> 
> Is it really worth working on beryl when they are merging with compiz ?

That's the real question. If someone is interested in working on it though
(since people are asking after it) they're welcome to come and work with
us. I don't follow beryl closely, so I don't know if they're fully merging
with compiz or what. In addition, I don't know if the extra bits from
Beryl, like the configuration manager and emerald will become part of
compiz. Those need care and feeding, and currently we don't have anyone
working on those programs, which are useful.

 - David Nusinow