For those who are interested in the world of compiz, new development snapshots have been trickling their way into experimental for the past week and are now available for widespread testing.

They're being sent to experimental instead of straight to unstable for a few reasons:

• None of us really know how stable / problematic they will be, whether they will build on all arches, or have other RC bugs. So this lets us evaluate the situation and not commit ourselves if we think it's still premature to support them.
• Updating these packages is a major pain and very time consuming, due to how the authors choose to maintain/organize their software. This is really a rant for another day though. Short version is that packages have to be dealt with manually and in a serial manner, and this means they don't all arrive ready to go in one evening's worth of work.
• Since 0.8.x, the upstream authors have moved the locations of some of the repositories, and in some cases rebuilt the repositories from scratch in the process. That meant I had to spend lots of time learning about how to do a few arcane things in git.
• Some of the new packages are using git submodules, which by itself isn't necessarily bad. However, for maintaining debian packages out of git with submodules, this a fairly exotic concept and requires some changes to the typical packaging workflows as well as maybe needing to hack some support into commonly used packaging tools.

So, anyway, the packages are all uploaded now--give them a try!