[MPlayer-dev-eng] Commit rules and coexistence rules

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On 6/5/08, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:45:17AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 05:45:40AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> > 
>> > just my personal oppinion as a mostly inactive mplayer developer
>> 
>> And this seems to be the main problem really.
>> 
>> All the devs that voted to remove Uoti are inactive[1], all the ones
>> that spoke up against this are active.
>
> All of the ones that voted to remove Uoti are experienced with a long
> history of successfull and peacefull work in a team ...
> All the ones against are inexperienced AND have been lucky to have not
> had their own new code "reindented" by uoti without asking. Eventually
> their ways will cross uotis as well ...
>
>
>> 
>> IMNSHO the active developers should be the ones running the show.
>
> The project is "run" by our docs maintainer who is not a developer at all.
> If you suggest to step back and let reimar & evgeny & ben & luca take over
> root i would support this.
> But that wont happen, you will never step back and let the people who
> actally write the code have the reins. You just use devel activity as
> argument when it serves your goals ...

Well said.

The facts are that there is huge flame war and Diego can not handle it.
He doesn't understand the reasons and his attempts to stop it 
only make it from bad to worse.

Why Diego must handle it. Simply because as root admin he had performed the role of project leader, without actually taking the responsibility that comes with that position.


This is why I call for Project Leader election.

If you like the things as they are now, vote for Diego.
If not, propose your nomination or vote for better candidate.

I do not care what the system for casting vote would be, as long as it is fair.
I have simple system in mind, but I'd give it only if asked to.