[MPlayer-cvslog] r19258 - trunk/DOCS/tech/oggless-xiph-codecs.txt

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 07:27:37PM +0200, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > sorry, i really dont know if your awnsers mean "i will disscuss
> > changes on the mailinglist before doing them" or "i will not disscuss
> > changes on the mailinglist before doing them" it rather sounds like
> > "the content was the same all the time, i never changed anything" but
> > that simply isnt the case as you can see in what you cut away from my
> > reply
> 
> You speak like you didnt knew me. We discussed everything on mailing
> lists before. Why would this change?

iam a flaming troll with amnesia, sorry :)
but back to the topic ...
where was the disscussion about the removial of the patent warning in asf?


> 
> > so what should i say now, i dont want to flame and i dont want to
> > be called a troll still i cannot work with you if you dont stop
> > making random changes at will and mixing things like a format
> > converstaion with various other changes ...
> 
> I will remove the file. If you allow it, I will readd a "clean" (that
> is, a non-rfc structured file) txt->xml conversion and append all the
> changes later, so you will notice the changes.

thanks


> 
> > and yes having you as author of the document which you just converted
> > from txt did also annoy me a little, removing your name from it though
> > would be as wrong as what its now
> 
> In case you didnt noticed, I added Introduction, Other codecs,
> Theora/FLAC description and References at least. Sorry, those are
> nothing, the document is only your work.

they are not nothing, thats why i dont want that your name is removed,
just that its clear what you wrote and what you didnt, and keep in mind
you started that name removial disscussion not me ...


> 
> > so my suggestion would be to put your name in an appropriate place and
> > make it clear what you did do ...
> 
> Appropriate place == /dev/null?

something like:

Credits/Authors:
Main Author     Michael Nidermayer
xml conversation,
References      Alex Beregszaszi

> 
> Sorry, but I got so much nervous on your senseless nitpicking... I

not my fault, you wanted to send the RFC in "today" ;)


> thought you are different. We know you are technically precious, but
> that is not the only thing in life.

when writing a standard/specification then all the small details matter
alot, you can call it nitpicking but IMHO its not, these tiny differences
can sometimes have a very great impact on a large number of people
for example in case of the c standard
right shift of negative numbers
    its undefined but everyone expects the sign bit to be replicated
    they should not have made it undefined IMHO
string stuff like strncpy
   no comment on this, everyone know how great and secure the standard
   str*() functions are

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