[FFmpeg-devel] Politics

Lynne dev at lynne.ee
Mon Dec 13 21:48:38 EET 2021


13 Dec 2021, 19:26 by softworkz at hotmail.com:

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org>
>> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2021 7:01 PM
>> To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org>
>> Cc: Soft Works <softworkz at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Politics
>>
>> Hello Softworkz
>>
>> On Sun, 12 Dec 2021, at 07:15, Soft Works wrote:
>> > yesterday, it happened for the 4th and 5th times that another developer
>> > called my patchset a “hack”.
>> >
>> > In none of the 4 cases, anybody was able to give even a single reason.
>> > My assessment is that when a skilled developer is unable to explain
>> > such opinions, these are possibly not one’s own opinions. Given that
>> > it happened 5 times, that turns possibly into a “very likely” IMO.
>>
>> You can call the TC for those kind of things, if needed, if you don't get any
>> answer.
>>
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> Yup, thanks, I will. The motivation for this is not about being dissatisfied
> or wanting to enforce anything. It's a significant change and I think it makes
> perfect sense in that case to have a democratic decision about it.
> Everyone should make her or his own decision whether or not this should 
> be added or not and whatever the outcome will be, it will be driven by
> a majority.
>
> Doing this in a timely way would be my personal wish, as it will allow
> me to prioritize the focus of my work and avoid wasting time on the 
> submission here, in case it would not be wanted by a majority.
>

Practically everyone who's tuned in has told you it's not acceptable
in this current state. Calling the TC now won't do anything but waste
everyone's time. I even told you in the gentlest possible way that
what we're looking for is something else. Please, do the changes
that we've been asking you to do for months, which you avoided doing,
because of your rhetoric refusal to admit that your initial approach
was not quite what we were looking for, and not quite what everyone
else's approach to do this was.


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