[FFmpeg-devel] Preliminary announcement about the current situation

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 04:07:18AM -0800, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:59 AM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:40:13PM +0100, Vladimir Pantelic wrote:
> >> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >>> Hi everyone
> >>>
> >>> I just wanted to say that iam as surprised as everyone else about what has
> >>> happened in the last few hours and that some developers overtaking
> >>> official ffmpeg and closing everyone elses write access without any kind of
> >>> public discussion is kinda nasty.
> >>
> >> as I understand it (from lurking in irc), the git at videolan is still up and
> >> running and was not touched at all.
> >
> > no, see "svn"log or a checkout of git
> >
> >
> > From: Mans Rullgard <git at videolan.org>
> > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?^^^^^^^^
> > [...]
> > - ? ?git clone git://git.videolan.org/ffmpeg <target>
> > + ? ?git clone git://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git <target>
> >
> >
> > From: Jason Garrett-Glaser <git at videolan.org>
> > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ^^^^^^^^^
> > [...]
> >
> > -Project Leader
> > -==============
> > -
> > -Michael Niedermayer
> > - ?final design decisions
> > -
> > -
> > ?Applications
> 
> I think that was an error before cvslog was fully switched over; I
> only committed to the git.ffmpeg.org repository.  I actually recloned
> the new repository to ensure that I wasn't committing to anything
> else.
> 
> I don't *think* any actual commits went to git.videolan.org; cvslog
> was likely just wrong.  If there was a mistake and commits did in fact
> go to git.videolan.org, it was of course not intended and one should
> feel free to revert anything that went there by mistake.

that commit is in my checkout of the videolan based repo

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