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

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 01:38:06PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> diego           1038     504     1542
> reimar           690     246      936
> voroshil         312       8      320
> nico             212      43      255
> benjamin         144      32      176
> ulion            153      13      166
> eugeni           106      56      162
> uoti              99      20      119
> guillaume         93      24      117
> compn             97      16      113
> cehoyos           89       8       97
> ivo               65       4       69
> zuxy              55      12       67
> vayne             14       3       17
> corey              9       6       15
> attila            10       5       15
> loren             11       2       13
> rik                1       3        4

Before anyone flames too hard: I asked for Diego to publish these
numbers.
The problem is, as some of those appearing later have shown, that we
have no opinions from some important people.
Thing is, I really want everyone to stay on this project and happily
work together. Not sure if that is possible anymore - and in that case
I want a more objective overview of the opinions that I currently have.
To summarize the dilemma for me personally: I very much respect and
agree with most of Michael's opinions, but there are a few problems:
They basically result in a FFmpeg-style review policy. That works really
great most of the time for FFmpeg, but I think it just can not work with
MPlayer currently, we do not have enough people willing to do that kind
of effort to get patches included.
So from that perspective I do think it might be better for the long term
good to basically let Uoti (and also other future developers) work mostly
on their own conditions (though I seriously wish for a bit more consideration
for other people from his side).
But: I am not ready to do this in a "let the whole team roll over to
accommodate one developer"-style. So if it is as it looked originally
that everyone thinks this kind of thing is a bad idea, I would never
propose it. But now with other developers showing up with different
opinions things are a bit different.
Now some of you probably wonder about my completely different opinion
now, given I started the whole thing. Well, the thing is, this
"proposed" kind of development is against my ideals of development:
as accessible to as many as possible, evolutionary development,
working as one team together etc.
But I think that that style is just not bearable for MPlayer right now.
I would find it very sad if taking such a direction will cause some of
the long-time developers who did a lot for MPlayer to leave, but on the
other hand almost all of these developers are active very rarely and on
parts of MPlayer that are moving into FFmpeg and as much as I appreciate
them or even consider friends, just doing what they want does not seem
the right for MPlayer as a project either.
I hope you understand that I kept out of this for so long, because any
path I see here is one I'd hate to go.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger