[FFmpeg-devel] Pausing the heated discussions

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Hi,

Le 31 décembre 2024 20:40:36 GMT+02:00, Alexander Strasser via ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org> a écrit :
>With the current culminations, and the stress and influx of mails
>it caused for all subscribers espescially in this for many of us
>rather busy time of the family year, I would like to see a pause
>of all personal attacks and project political mails until at least
>2025-01-15 UTC.

Problem is, there's really never going to be a good time. The best time to deal with issues and for the CC to settle on any ensuing statements and possibly take actions, is the earliest possible - not a month later.

That's especially true for the people affected. Speaking from personal experience (in another project), getting suspended weeks after something happened and you thought it was over with absolutely sucks.

Also incidentally I'm much more available to participate in CC discussions now than I'll be mid-January (due to unforeseen reasons outside my control).

>Of course I would ideally like to see no more personal attacks in
>the future, but that hasn't worked out so far, so I expect at least
>some outliers will unfortunately turn up once discussions start
>again.

Personal criticism is completely justified *if* people behave badly., whether willfully or not. At the same time, certain people here ostensibly take any and all criticism as attack, harassment and/or provocation, all the while criticising other people themselves. People are entitled to their own opinions and biases (myself included), but we can't have it both ways.

What you should be asking for is that people stop abusing their positions, and to stop taking their corporate or private arguments on to FFmpeg-devel, for a start.

Br,