Fedora Core 7 - Compiz vs Beryl

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 22:58 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> > On 1/5/07, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > 
> >> We *already* have both. Beryl is in Fedora Extras currently. With the
> >> merge in place, the only argument is what should be the default and here
> >> is where code quality does matter.
> > 
> > And fedora packager reponse quality as well !
> 
> We cant change defaults just because the package maintainers within 
> Fedora dont respond. The solution to that is to post to this list with 
> bug reports to check on progress if there is none for a unreasonable 
> amount of time. This is one of the reasons why I have been advocating 
> weekly irc development meetings. Raise the issue there and solving it 
> should make it more transparent.

Careful.  There's lots of bugs that could pop up like that.  Without
some kind of "importance" system, you'll get lots of noise.  For
example, I have a vim bug opened long ago that has just sat there.  Is
it critical?  No.  Is it damn annoying?  Yes.

"Unreasonable amount of time" is subjective.

josh