[MPlayer-cvslog] r26897 - in trunk: AUTHORS DOCS/tech/MAINTAINERS DOCS/tech/encoding-guide.txt DOCS/tech/encoding-tips.txt configure etc/codecs.conf libmpcodecs/vd_xvid4.c libmpcodecs/ve_xvid4.c

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On 5/31/08, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 06:04:28PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
>> Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
>> > I don't see any difference.
>> 
>> To the letter of the policy sure, the whole spirit should be: not annoy 
>> people over stuff.
>
> And the point of the rules (at least as I consider it) is to tell people
> how to not annoy others, especially for those who are unable to figure
> it out themselves (either because they are new to the project and do not
> know their way around here or just because).
>
>> > If you want consistency, then fix the spelling of the documentation.
>> 
>> Apparently xvid people do not have ideas about which spelling is better, 
>> let's pick one, make it consistent and be happy.
>
> For what it is worth, I think I remember this was already discussed at
> length, and it was concluded that (unfortunately, since it does not
> match the fourcc) the "right" spelling is probably supposed to be
> "Xvid". The documentation was already updated, nobody bothered about the
> code though (it does not really matter much how it is spelled in the
> code IMO, but configure would be better off matching the
> documentation...).

The discussion is whole 4 mails, where even the submitter says the change is uglier. If I had noticed it then (I usually don't read -docs) , I would have objected it and probably prevented the whole mess. But I can't follow all maillist.
I do not believe that once the decision is made it is written in stone.


What I find highly infuriating is Diego committing his changes again, without even trying to participate into discussion.