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

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 07:12:50AM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 00:58 +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 07:49:24PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
[...]
> > If the "old genration" says mixing cosmetics and functional changes causes
> > problems why would anyone think it is not so? Becasue the always better
> > knowing uoti said it? On which big project has he worked in the past so he
> > could even have that experience?
> 
> No need to bring personal experience into that argument. You can look at
> other projects directly and see that they do not follow the kind of
> policy you want.
> 
> You're also misrepresenting what the difference in opinion is. If you'd
> ask people "is it good to mix cosmetics and functional changes?" many
> would answer "no". They just wouldn't mean that as literally and with so
> little room for common sense as you do. Completely reformatting a file

s/common sense/your common sense/

[... repeation of old argument that your personal oppinion overrides all rules
 and oppinions of others, no matter about what or where ...]

[... argument that you are the only person who does any work and others are
 irrelevant ...]
 
> > Even you go crazy if iive just changes xvids spelling.
> 
> You're either being stupid or deliberately misunderstand. Obviously
> Diego would not have reacted that way if Ivan had just made to commit to
> change it to any consistent spelling before Diego's changes. What Iive
> did was revert changes Diego had just made. 

> Iive can hardly claim to
> know the correct spelling with superior authority, 

That says the master of all knowledge and ultimate athority ...


> had not been working
> on any related changes himself, was not directly affected by the
> changes, and there was no hurry to resolve the matter. It was obvious

Well iive used common sense like you do or should i rather say claim to do?


> Diego wanted the other spelling as he had just changed it that way. Yet
> Iive changed the spelling back without any discussion, not even flaming
> that would have indicated there would be no agreement.

iive discussed as much as diego did, that was bad in both cases sure.


[...]
> 
> > > > > This projects has many problems, but renegade commits are not one of
> > > > > them.  Lack of manpower is much more serious
> > > > 
> > > > Well frankly the lack of manpower is caused by the hostile environment IMHO
> 
> If you're trying to imply that I would be responsible for the problems

not alone, no


> remember how I joined the project. I fixed some nasty longstanding bugs
> in the central timing code that apparently no existing developer
> understood. You can hardly claim that those old developers who now want
> to throw me out would have been doing fine before I joined.

Thank you for your bug fixes and contributions

[...]
-- 
Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB

I hate to see young programmers poisoned by the kind of thinking
Ulrich Drepper puts forward since it is simply too narrow -- Roman Shaposhnik
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