[FFmpeg-devel] Donations and what happens with them

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:08:46AM +0100, Rob wrote:
> On 27 January 2011 17:54, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 09:48:56AM +0100, Rob wrote:
> > [...]
> >> >> >They belived they voted on a ultra secret compromise to bring mans back into
> >> >> the project
> >>
> >> I lent my support to the goals, not to a compromise of you out and
> >> Mans in. Do not put words in my mouth.
> >
> > you possibly wherent part of the discussions, dont blame me about that please
> > i had assumed everyone was shown the full discussions before their agreement
> > was asked.
> 
> I was involved in the discussions and tried to steer them in the
> direction of fairness, respect and dignity. I stated that if things
> proceeded in an undignified fashion it would reflect badly on the
> group. That is exactly what is happening. Very little of this
> discussion is about making things better (or at least when anyone
> tries, it quickly degenerates into mud-flinging).
> 
> > [...]
> >> >> > The official repository is the videolan repository, the other repository will
> >> >> > be removed from that page.
> >> >> > This is a decission of me as leader of the project.
> >> >>
> >> >> >Iam also asking diego and mans to resign as roots with this mail.
> >> >>
> >> >> You are insisting that everyone else resign, yet you yourself still
> >> >> refuse to resign as "leader". ?This is ridiculous. ?You are even worse
> >> >> than Mans and Diego: you want everyone else to give a mile when you
> >> >> won't give a single inch.
> >> >
> >> > The problem is if a group of people forks they must choose a new name and
> >> > new domain. people cannot "fork" and then pretend they are the new leadership
> >> > of an existing project and the existing leader is no more.
> >>
> >> As I now disagree with the way the announcement was done, I will agree
> >> that if there had not been an overwhelming majority amongst active
> >> developers that the group should have forked and not taken over.
> >
> > I think a fork would move us toward a solution.
> > I think me and mans finding an agreement and staying together in one single
> > repo would also be a move toward a solution but people really must want this
> > otherwise we will start fighting again.
> 
> For me, this was never about M?ns and Michael per se. If the person,
> people or entire community holding the power manage things in such a
> way that _drives development_ and actually does work to improve the
> core of FFmpeg, it really doesn't matter to me what entity has power.
> It seems that for Michael and M?ns it is a personal battle.
> 
> Michael, will you work with M?ns?

possibly

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Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB

Many things microsoft did are stupid, but not doing something just because
microsoft did it is even more stupid. If everything ms did were stupid they
would be bankrupt already.
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