[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main configure,1.932,1.933

[Jan Knutar]

On Saturday 06 November 2004 22:52, Diego Biurrun wrote:

> Yes.  And sometimes he abuses his admin role to stir up trouble by
> disabling CVS accounts without a request from the project leader..

[ I am not developer, yet this mailing list being open, I will post this
opinion, feel free to add me to your personal killfile, etc... ]

I have only watched mailing lists (dev, cvs, doc) since March or so, and
IRC even less, so I have only very recent picture of people's personalities,

However, as I perceive it, Arpi is acting pretty conservatively regarding
use of his implicit position as root of project server. Compared to the tales,
the flaming dictator [1] of MPlayer, he is quite a reasonable and nice chap,
IMO from what I've seen.

This person, who has not been active for over a year, applies obviously
broken code, which has been discussed several times on mailing lists,
and found to be indeed totally broken, several times. Arpi disables person
from doing more damage. That is not unreasonable in my view. That is
very good service, to have admin who follows mailing lists enough to
be able to make the call.





[1] Compared to "Benevolent dictator" of Linux, I think popular perception
of MPlayer would be that devs are "flaming dictators". Not my own opinion.