[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavc: remove the QOA decoder

[Vittorio Giovara]

I ain't reading all of that
Happy for you
Or sorry that happened

On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 3:47 PM Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Vittorio Giovara (12023-12-05):
> > Your attitude for "omgfeatures" is also pretty toxic, there are heaps of
> > literature about feature creep and how important it is to remove dead
> code.
>
> You should read said literature before quoting it, you would learn the
> difference between more features and feature creep: creeping features
> make it harder to maintain core features.
>
> So, can you prove that this QOA decoder makes it harder to maintain the
> framework of FFmpeg? No, you cannot.
>
> > Uhhh, but maybe I'm just misinterpreting your message, but that looks
> like
> > a very ignorant comparison.
>
> It is not ignorant at all, you show exactly the same argument structure.
>
> Homophobes cannot prove homosexuality causes objective and immediate
> harm to anybody.
>
> You cannot prove that Paul's code causes objective and immediate harm to
> the project.
>
> So homophobes resort to invoking a vague harm to society / youth /
> whatever.
>
> So you resort to invoking a vague harm to a generation.
>
> You do it because you have a strong intuition that it is true.
>
> Homophobes have a strong intuition that it is true too.
>
> But intuition without arguments has no place in a debate, it cannot
> convince anybody.
>
> And your intuition is just as wrong as the homophobes'.
>
> In this instance, your intuition is wrong because it applies to FFmpeg
> what it knows about professional projects — open or closed source —
> whereas FFmpeg is not a professional project but a Libre Software
> projects whose most talented contributors work for fun.
>
> In a professional project, the time and effort of developers is limited
> and must be focused on useful things. In a project like FFmpeg, the time
> and effort that talented developers invest in the project grows as they
> can work on fun tasks, even when said tasks are of limited usefulness.
>
> A sure way of killing a project like FFmpeg is to prevent people from
> working on the things they find fun and try to force them to do useful
> things instead, either by outright rejecting if you have the authority
> or by drowning them with bickering and demands, like you did with
> Michael and like you just ran Paul out.
>
> Good job.
>
> --
>   Nicolas George
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-- 
Vittorio