[MPlayer-cvslog] r26411 - trunk/libmpdemux/demuxer.c

[Alban Bedel]

On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:52:31 +0300
Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi> wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 19:30 +0200, Alban Bedel wrote:
> >  IMHO ppl _clearly_ not ready to abide by the
> > rules, as is the case here, don't deserve an svn account. They can
> > still send patch and let ppl who responsibly use their account
> > commit.
> 
> "The rules" being something which is not actually defined.
> svn-howto.txt (which seems to be what people talking about "rules"
> think contains them) neither has all the things claimed as "rules"

Yes, there are a few unwritten rules. Patch welcome.

> nor contains ONLY them.

And what's the big deal about it? Again patch welcome if you really
feel that the POLICY / RULES section deserve a file on its own.

> It has things nobody follows in practice.

Like? You are the only one who ignore those rules.

> It's easy to accuse anyone you want if everyone breaks some "rules"
> and you can pick which to enforce.

You might want to read the rules section again. I see nothing in there
that is selectively enforced.
 
> Talking about "the rules" is nothing but an appeal to authority when
> you mean "this is different from how I'm used to doing things / like
> things done".

No, it's a set of things the team agreed upon. They can be changed any
time. If you don't like something just submit a patch and have it
discussed on the list. But stop wasting everybody's time by knowingly
breaking the existing rules.

	Albeu