I believe many of the issues facing compiz could be remedied, but it will require many of the above commenters points to be addressed. I hope you don’t give up, Sam and i hope Canonical is willing to do more than they are currently doing for the project. (they could take some tips from Archlinux/gentoo, QT and GTK+ documentation (i say this because Ubuntu Documentation would be a very poor standard to measure against. I think you have done some great work in compiz, but i think Canonical needs to have a few full-time people working on the project, not just for coding but documentation, and redoing the website, as well. they are all 100% better than Compiz’ docs. I would think hiring someone to do documentation would be a smart thing at this point. Canonical needs to invest more into compiz – being as it is the compositor / WM they are using, and the basis of Unity. I think this has been a huge drawback for potential developers. I think both ‘some-guy’ and Roth have made some valid points.Ĭompiz needs better documentation for developers to be able to work on the project. I honestly feel like I am coming a bit harsh and unappreciative, I would love to start helping and might take a look at some of the stuff myself soon, but I feel that this is urgently needed. To summarize: Simplify _everything_, scale down, don’t document each and every option of every plugin with screenshots, and get a stable release out.
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Most people won’t install unstable software just to develop a plugin for it, so getting that out might attract attention. The last thing I think should be rushed out is a stable C++ release.
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Forums are probably not needed at this point, IRC and mailing lists should suffice considering the vast majority of newbies will be on the ubuntu forums and experienced users will know how to reach the development community. Following from that, there are too many mailing lists for such a small project. Perhaps a github-style wiki/website is all that’s really needed. The website is too big, a window manager doesn’t need something of this size, especially when the community has shrunk so far. I understand that the ubuntu folks have you busy, but I think that these are real barriers for people to get involved. I haven’t been around much lately, but there are a few things I see as problems for the compiz project:
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