[FFmpeg-devel] The "bad" Patch

[softworkz .]

(this is the 2nd last message)



Final Chapter
=============

Some people here don't like me - that's okay. I'm honest, direct,
I say what I'm thinking, often not very diplomatic, and I know which  
results it causes sometimes. 
But that a few people kind-of tried campaigning against me - even 
neglecting facts against better knowledge - that came to me as a 
surprise, given that I'm not attacking anybody personally
(except Nicolas, who's begging for it). I don't know what I've done
which might have pulled a trigger for some, so I can't comment.


Let's get to the cast of the final chapter:

- Lynne
- Nicolas George
- Kieran Kunyar

They were acting as some kind of boosters, blowing up and spreading
things, including false facts or distorted views of the situation.



Lynne
=====

I had sensed a hostile attitude for some time which became
eventually visible here, one week before patchset was pushed:

Quotes:

IRC, 2025-05-08
11:20 <Lynne> I think it was too early to give softworkz push access

What's remarkable is that I haven't pushed anything between 
2025-05-03 and 2025-05-15. I had just sent patches to the ML that 
day.. - so, this statement cannot have been about a pushed commit.


I might be mistaken, but it very much looked to me like she had 
just been waiting until I'd make some (seeming) mistake.
After I had pushed the patchset:


IRC, 2025-05-16
11:25 <Lynne> softworkz: you've been refusing to use proper submission
procedures, tried to introduce your own, you've pushed bad patches and
did not even consider that calling external programs from a binary
directly was inherently bad.

11:26 <Lynne> I don't think you deserve your push privileges

11:27 <Lynne> softworkz: last month you even had to publicly ask on
the mailing list about a policy which pretty much everyone understood


A full load thrown at me, all points having turned out to be pointless,
also accusing me for asking a question on the mailing list - like a kind 
of failed attempt for finding once another bad thing I would have done.

Ref "bad patch": this conversation
Ref "proper submission procedures":
https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2025-May/343806.html
Ref "Question on the Mailing List":
https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2025-May/343107.html


When I'd be asked what a bad patch is - then I'd say that a patch that
is pushed, which breaks FATE is definitely a "bad patch". 
As we know now that my patch 15/15 was NOT bad and I've never 
pushed a commit that breaks FATE, this means that _my_ 
"bad-patch-count" is zero. 
While not everybody has a count of zero, I'm not going to make 
a big thing out of it.



Nicolas George
==============

He appears to be desperately looking for a slave developer who is
looking up to him and follows his instructions. Why he doesn't
realize that I'm the least suitable person on the planet for 
this figment, is a mystery to me.
I'm still surprised that he made it into this cast. Normally,
he is running his own show without jumping on others' trains. 
Seems he couldn't resist to this opportunity. 
I'm pretty sure he had looked at the patchset. He followed the
development and revisions more than anybody else and made a
lot of comments, to several commits and was involved in the 
discussions about the AVTextFormat API.

Quotes:

2025-05-22
I think giving softworkz the authority to decide if his own 
patches are ready for inclusion was premature.

2025-05-16
[to Michael] In particular I think you granted Git access too soon. 
A track record of multiple non-trivial patches and useful reviews 
should have been necessary.


=> He knows my subtitle filtering patchset and he has seen many
   reviews I did in earlier years.
   
=> So, this is just feigned ignorance, disguised under the 
   guise of reason.



Kieran Kunhya
=============

I don't know much about him, other than sometimes making aggressive
posts. He came right out of nowhere and started campaigning against 
me and the whole patchset. Obviously, he had never looked at 
it before.

Quotes:

2025-05-22
I really wonder how you can't be embarrassed sending what imo is the
worst patchset in the history of the project.

2025-05-22
A patchset so bad, people who quit the project like Derek came back
to clean up your mess.


Almost hilarious, if it wouldn't be a serious matter with a clear 
intention to defame me.



(next message will be the final)

Best regards,
sw