[FFmpeg-devel] Donations and what happens with them

Thilo Borgmann thilo.borgmann
Thu Jan 27 15:20:40 CET 2011


>>>> The official repository is the videolan repository, the other repository will
>>>> be removed from that page.
>>>> This is a decission of me as leader of the project.
>>>
>>>> Iam also asking diego and mans to resign as roots with this mail.
>>>
>>> You are insisting that everyone else resign, yet you yourself still
>>> refuse to resign as "leader".  This is ridiculous.  You are even worse
>>> than Mans and Diego: you want everyone else to give a mile when you
>>> won't give a single inch.
>>
>> The problem is if a group of people forks they must choose a new name and
>> new domain. people cannot "fork" and then pretend they are the new leadership
>> of an existing project and the existing leader is no more.
> 
> As I now disagree with the way the announcement was done, I will agree
> that if there had not been an overwhelming majority amongst active
> developers that the group should have forked and not taken over.

The last vote showed that there is no overwhelming majority you're talking of.

Also, "active developer" demands a definition and that very definition was
clearly abused for the intention to assume the project because even active
maintainers were not included in that definition.

Neither would even a simple majority justify an assumption of the project but a
vote about and corresponding action.

Also I do not see Michael to grasp for power but others...

-Thilo



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