[MPlayer-dev-eng] [POLICY] clarify conditions for functionality removal

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Sun Feb 5 14:42:52 CET 2006


We have the following paragraph in our policy that forbids removing
functionality from the code:

4. Do not change behavior of the program (renaming options etc) without
   first discussing it on the mplayer-dev-eng mailing list. Do not
   remove functionality from the code. Just improve!

I think this needs to be revisited.  Removing functionality can make
sense in certain cases (MHz counter anyone?) and should be allowed under
certain conditions.  I therefore propose updating the policy to read:

4. Do not change behavior of the program (renaming options etc) or
   remove functionality from the code without first discussing it
   on the mplayer-dev-eng mailing list.

I think this is closer to the way we handle the situation right now and
makes more sense.

Diego




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