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

[Uoti Urpala]

On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 10:14 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> Then it's entirely possible that the rules as they are presently defined
> (or possibly ill-defined) may be out of date, and it may be appropriate
> to update them - ideally with consensus from the entire development
> team, preferably at least with the support of a majority, and certainly
> with public discussion beforehand.

My goal is not to make a different set of rules and then strictly follow
those, but to make people stop treating any set of written rules as the
ultimate authority.

> It is *not* appropriate to simply ignore them, unless the idea is to
> throw the rules out wholesale and not put anything else in their place -
> that is, to move to a situation of "no rules at all".

To me this paragraph seems to indicate that you don't have a realistic
view of the situation. Some rules are already ignored; and more
important, it's not the rules which prevent people from doing harmful
things. "No rules at all" does not equal "everyone is free to erase all
files in the repository or do any other idiotic thing". There are
already lots of harmful things you could do which are not forbidden by
any rules. Rules which even tried to cover everything would need to be
very long. Removing official rules, even those rules that make sense and
should almost always be followed, won't make much difference overall as
most things won't be covered by them anyway.