[FFmpeg-devel] [ANNOUNCE] New FFmpeg maintainership

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 06:12:08PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:02:51PM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> > Hi Stefano,
> > 
> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Stefano Sabatini
> > <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:
> > > On date Wednesday 2011-01-19 01:58:53 +0100, Diego Biurrun encoded:
> > >> The discontent reached the point where a fork was being contemplated
> > >> and then planned, but it turned out that the momentum had soared way
> > >> past critical mass and turned into a tidal wave of revolution. ?The
> > >> focus moved from forking to avoiding a fork if possible.
> > >
> > > But unfortunately it never passed from considering to ask to the
> > > person/s which were considered the cause of the "problem" to change
> > > for the last time, or to discuss this publically, giving a chance to
> > > these persons to defend themselves, and eventually pose an ultimatum
> > > and act in the case they failed.
> > 
> > I've read this statement by various people in a variety of ways now. I
> > want to make something very clear: this is not true. I won't spill all
> > the details, but suffice to say that we felt that we tried enough and
> > that another approach was needed to advance.
> 
> Ive heared the "I won't spill all the details" in various forms too.
> No offense intended but are the details unstable in presence of public scrutiny?

No, but I see little point (or even legitimacy) in disclosing the
details of private communication with you.  Exposing all of it to
public scrutiny is likely to degenerate into mud slinging.

Diego