[MPlayer-dev-eng] [patch] prefer ALSA over OSS

[Baptiste Coudurier]

Hi

Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:20:54AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> [...]
>>> To answer your original question, several gigs of downloads per mirror
>>> per day is a pretty good indication of being a leading project.
>> Compare with VLC.
>>
>> Downloads are nothing more than numbers. 
> 
> yes also the bandwidth needed for svn update vs. downloading a full
> release.tar.gz would have to be considered and the number of people using
> a package from some distro, the actual size in bytes of release.tar.gz, ...
> 
> 
>> What you want and need are
>> (active) developers and mindshare.  
> 
> well, why dont we do something to attract more developers?
> 
> mplayer could have used googles summer of code for that but even now
> a similar project based on donations could be done

IMHO there is a difference between a soc participant and valuable long
time contributor and maintainer. Mentoring, encouraging, following up is
a good attitude which will attract more developpers to be a part of a team.

> or a contest to implement X, with some funny price like 10l cola
> and some entry in a contributors/credits file
> 
> 
>> We are a handful of people 
> 
> 
>> hacking
>> away in their spare time without any direction or organization.
> 
> true but i see nothing bad here, rather the opposite that the wrong
> direction and organization could do much more harm then no
> direction and organization does

Trying is not bad. It might fail but it might improve current situation.

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