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

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 06 June 2008 at 21:35, Benjamin Zores wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski a écrit :
> > On Friday, 06 June 2008 at 21:24, Benjamin Zores wrote:
> >> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski a écrit :
> >>> On Friday, 06 June 2008 at 21:08, Benjamin Zores wrote:
> >>>> Leader's goal is to change that, not to code.
> >>> I agree, but these goals are not mutually exclusive.
> >> Sure, it's the best case scenario.
> >> But that's not a reason to drop a good candidate for leadership just 
> >> because he can't code.
> > 
> > Let me ask directly then: do you have such candidates? Even one?
> 
> No, but I'm just refusing Michael's proposal.
> That just sounds weird: he asks for democracy but leader needs to have 
> coding skills, hence only a minority is elligible.

Coding skills alone are not a good criterion. My proposal is: only
active maintainers of major parts of MPlayer should be eligible.
Any power should come with responsibility. I wouldn't trust anyone
who does not actively maintain a part of MPlayer to be the leader.
This also assures that such leaders will be respected by other
developers. Don't you agree?

Regards,
R.

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