[MPlayer-dev-eng] 0.90 release plans and others

[Diego Biurrun]

Arpi wrote:
> The real question is: what will be happening after 0.90 released?
> 8. Leave project. (*)
> 
> *: not a joke. i've spent _all_ of my spare time in last 2 years on mplayer
> development, maintaining, testing, mailing, bugfixing etc. I'll give away
> the maintainer job after 0.90 (anyone interested? i hoped that Alex will
> take it but nowdays he's also about leaving the project :().

I have long feared that you would eventually burn out.  Seems like it is 
finally the case...

How about just unsubscribing from -users and doing only the fun bits of 
MPlayer development?

> IMHO mplayer is good enough now that it won't lost in /dev/null if i leave.

Probably not, but will it lose the race against xine?

> (but it really needs a new code maintainer - or maybe not: i can imagine
> that it may work unmaintained, ie. everyone with cvs access will commit
> everything, it will result in more unstable code, but also much faster
> improvement/more features. or it will just go mad and turns to be unusably
> unstable in a few weeks. who knows... see egcs vs. gcc story as example)

How did this gcc - egcs thing go?

In any case thanks for bearing with us for so long and starting all this.

Don't go.

Diego