[MPlayer-dev-eng] Fwd: [MPlayer-legal] expressing concerns - was: [PATCH] - fix for missing audio stream in dvr-ms asf files

[Gábor Bérczi]

Since I received no answer, I forward my mail to a more public area.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Gábor Bérczi <gabor at berczi.be>
> Date: 2006. február 5. 15:41:47 GMT+01:00
> To: "MPlayer legal affairs (private)" <mplayer-legal at mplayerhq.hu>
> Subject: [MPlayer-legal] expressing concerns - was: [PATCH] - fix  
> for missing	audio stream in dvr-ms asf files
> Reply-To: "MPlayer legal affairs (private)" <mplayer- 
> legal at mplayerhq.hu>
>
>
> On 2006.02.05., at 14:54, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>
>>> is the thing below a problem? / is it safe to ignore?
>> As always, legal issues are tricky and sticky..
>
> Yeah right, YOU of everyone, please do tell me about it...
>
> How's KISS? Do you have any new "drafts" this year? :) It's been  
> ages since you only barely beat me at the legal representative  
> "election", yet can anyone point me to a list where your deeds are  
> listed? A small note: removing ex-developers from wish lists, and  
> removing ex-developers pages from the homepage does not classify as  
> "deed". Neither does sending "yes, someone please [write this  
> documentation] / [fix XYZ issue]" mails daily.
>
> Why is it that I can probably point to more arabic newspapers  
> containing piglets, than an MPlayer homepage update happens? (and  
> when it does, it only contains "we won XYZ award" / advertisement /  
> <include any opensource movement happenings, swpat etc>) Project  
> outwards communication is zero.
>
> The latest, even PRE(!) release is what, like 10 (!) MONTHS OLD!?
>
> The obivous overall degradation of the project due to the lack of  
> any form of (not even neccessarily centralised) management is  
> perceptible even for a slug after a hit-and-run.
>
> Who stole the new server? Why is it that the whole projects lacks a  
> single person who could establish even the current INFINITELY basic  
> project environment on an i386 in at most ONE WEEK? It's been at  
> least 2 (maybe three) months since the server arrived! Then someone  
> came up with the silly idea of five simultaneous root users (which  
> was immediately followed by a swarm of mails along the line "well  
> umm I am not really into this ummm, but if you decide so, ummm well  
> I could maybe help in"), yet not even this catastrophe happened. In  
> fact, nothing happened!
>
> After I left, nobody rushed in to establish a replacement for my  
> automatic compile farm. Actually latest CVS does not even compile  
> for example on OpenBSD/i386 (m_option.c:292: error: syntax error  
> before "PRId64"). I don't even dare to check the results of the  
> (still working without modifications since 2 years!) compile farm.
>
> People often ask me about the MPlayer project, but I can only say  
> it's not a "project" anymore, it's just a handful of idealist  
> idiots sitting in their turf, hacking on things that never have  
> visible results, while managing to loudly break down each others'  
> ideas.
>
> No goal, no work done.
>
> -- 
> Gábor Bérczi
>
>
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Gábor Bérczi


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