"As many of you already know, there have been sporadic discussions with members of the Beryl community over the last few weeks regarding the possibility of reuniting. While these discussions have been informal, they have led to greater cooperation between the communities. "
Shortly after I published the description of the proposed restructuring of compiz, Quinn Storm of Beryl published a proposed redefinition of Beryl that was very similar. After some discussions with the Beryl community we came to the conclusion that that Compiz-Extra and Beryl would be nearly identical projects competing against each other using the same (or very similar) core, the same plugins, and having goals that were very similar. The obvious question then became: "Why are we competing?"
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