Latest Compiz-related news

Not sure if anyone else keeps an eye on www.compiz-fusion.org or www.phoronix.com, but Compiz has made a few Linux news headlines lately. Apparently Compiz-Fusion is going to be discontinued, Compiz++ and NOMAD are being merged back into Compiz and it will be a single project. The 0.8 release of Compiz will be the next stable branch and should be out within a few days (unless it's out already by now.) Then a lot of work will be done to prepare for the unified project's 0.9 release.

Links:
Compiz 0.8 to be released within a week
Compiz-Fusion to be dropped
Nomad and Compiz++ to merge back into Compiz

 Well... that just dropped years of work down the drain....
 What a bummer.... so, what of those who love Compiz-Fusion and want to continue using it? This group has done this before.. the history is like a never-ending cycle of splits and re-mergers, etc.... I wish they would just get it all together and stay with it.
 I wonder if this will bring back interest in E17 now?

Compiz++ had most if not all of Compiz-Fusion's plugins and functionalities ported to it. Now it's all going to be merged back into Compiz and that'll be the big focus. They have stated that Compiz-Fusion users should stay with C-F until they are done merging everything back together.

To me too, it seems like a bad news. These guys merge projects just when people have started liking their products.

Earlier this happened to Beryl, and now Compiz Fusion.

Aww man, I better put a mirror of compiz fusion on my server =D