I think it's about time the "big five" of compiz-extra got together and tried to make a unified statement about what *compiz-extra* will and will not accept. At the moment, to me, it lokos like this:-
mikedee wants to absorb beryl and keep compiz-extra as is
RYX wants to merge the code and keep the communities separate
imnotpc is in favour of merging - code now, communities later
amgee hasn't commented publicly
davidr is staying the Hel out of it all.
From my point of view, mikedee is being unreasonable; I don't see the point of RYX's suggestion, because there's no reason that a package called compiz-extra can't inherit from el new community (rather than new communities basing off of compiz-extra); imnotpc's suggestion is perhaps the most workable, and I think at least a majority of beryl devs would be able to accept it.