[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: homepage/src news-archive.src.en,1.32,1.33

[Diego Biurrun]

Guillaume POIRIER writes:
> Le sam 25/09/2004 à 22:29, Michael Niedermayer a écrit :
> [..]
> > IMHO, news entries should never be changed against the authors will, except by 
> > complete removal with a visible note that the entry was removed, after some 
> > agreement (vote or project leader)
> > so iam against adding some note which would look like it was written by gabu
> 
> How about just _moving_ the the news up to that contentious one to the old news 
> section. At the very least, it would make is less visible.

It's already in there.

> I'm new here, so maybe my voice doesn't count much, but I don't think there were
> any willingness to personally harm someone (rather respecting other people's 
> work, namely Kernel hackers and Debian Team),

That was my intention, yes.

> so I'm quite surprised by people's reactions.

The roots lie in the past, but obviously not behind us.

> To me, MPlayer is one of the icons of Free Software, and I do think that what is 
> written on the news section, being signed or not signed by the release team, 
> should not needlessly put down other projects. That's about respect.

That is also my opinion and why I made the change in the first place.
But this has to be balanced against other arguments and I have since
changed my mind.

Diego