List of problems with Plasma Active on Mer

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 31 May 2012, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Thursday, May 31, 2012 10:13:30 martin brook wrote:
> > Just a reminder that Mer does not include hardware adaptations, so kernel
> > and graphics drivers are out of scope of that project.
> > 
> > Nemo does aim to support an x86 adaptation.
> 
> imho, this highlights a scoping error for mer. here's why:
> 
> * mer doesn't do hardware adaptation.
> * projects on top of mer do
> * there are multiple projects on top of mer, all of which need adaptations
> * there is a finite number of common hardware targets
> 
> this leads to multiple projects working on the same hardware adaptations
> without a good place to collaborate.

on top of that, add the fact that everybody is quite confused where mer stops 
and nemo begins also tells something (i still didn't understood it 100%)

if something becomes very difficult to communicate correctly, maybe there is 
some underlying problem in how things are structured...

-- 
Marco Martin