[FFmpeg-devel] Previous trac server hosting Was: STF RaptorQ

[Baptiste Coudurier]

Hi

> On May 24, 2025, at 10:48 AM, Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 24 May 2025, 17:39 Michael Niedermayer, <michael at niedermayer.cc <mailto:michael at niedermayer.cc>>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 01:13:05PM +0100, Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel
>> wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> As an example i could have instead replied with a tone matching yours:
>>>> (below is a (true) example of communication in the same tone as yours
>>>> that i avoid)
>>>> 
>>>> "I appreciated the stellar service you provided by providing and
>>>> hosting a trac server for FFmpeg. It had only one broken cpu core.
>>>> You only once decided to use the FFmpeg server to test some random
>>>> audio hardware.
>>>> 
>>>> Its sad that our users need reliable service"
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> You seem to forget that you contacted me in a panic because your hosting
>>> was gone. And I went into the office on a Saturday in my own time and
>> found
>>> the first server I could find and immediately set it up for you. You are
>>> very much welcome for this.
>> 
> 

[…]

> You had already moved trac from this server at the time.
> 
> I helped you in an emergency in my own spare time on a Saturday. I found
> the first server I could to get trac back.
> 
> It's truly incredible getting lectured from you on being a sysadmin.
> 
> Adding cc as quotes are being taken out of context here when I helped the
> project in my own spare time on a Saturday in an emergency.
> 
> I will quote Anton here:
> 
> "
> Behold, the favorite excuse of every tin-pot dictator ever.
> 
> So boiling down your verbal vomit, I get
> 
>    Yes, your democracy IS just pretend and I - the person who
> 
>    * tries very very hard to avoid as much human contact as possible
>    * oversaw one of the most toxic FOSS communities for close
>      to 25 years
>    * through heavy-handed authoritarianism directly caused one of the
>      most notorious forks in FOSS history
> 
>    really do know better than everyone else how to run a community.
> 
> 
> To that I say:
> * you are delusional, as you are the source or enabler of all the
>  toxicity
> * Libav had NONE of these problems (not saying it was perfect - it did
>  have other problems, but not these)
> * there is no hope for this project as long as you continue to hold the
>  reins and I've wasted enough of my life on it.
> "
> 
> He is absolutely spot on.

May I ask why you came back and are you still around the project ?

Libav failed, that’s a fact. Please stop bringing that subject into conversations.

In the last few months that I’ve on the ML, I feel that yourself have introduced a lot of toxicity as well.

— 
Baptiste Coudurier