[FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 09:45:37PM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:44:35 -0500
> Joe Neal <vlvtelvis at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> > When this happened I scoured the net, including mailing lists from both
> > projects to try and figure out what had happened.  The overwhelming
> > evidence based on mailing list posts, blog posts, forum discussions and
> > pretty much everywhere else I could look all led me to the overwhelming
> > conclusion of what I stated before. This is the only time I've ever
> > seen anything to the contrary stated and I looked good and hard for
> > another side of the story, as have many other people.
> 
> Part of the reason for this is that the people around libav decided
> that they didn't want to participate in the mudslinging. Only the most
> blatant lies were refuted and all the name calling was mostly ignored.
> In hindsight that was a mistake.
>   
> > I still don't know who is in the right, but at least you've put an end
> > to the weirdness where only one side of the story existed on the net
> > and there was just conspicuous silence on the other.
> 
> I'd like to give here a short account on what happend before the split,
> even though this not the right place. I think i should write up something
> longer after my vacations and put it somewhere online.
> 
> Before 2011 there were quite a few issues within FFmpeg. Most of those
> revolved around Michael Niedermayer playing by his own set of rules
> and ignoring the advise of everyone else. His behaviour has resulted
> in quite a bit of ... anger.. to put it mildly. A few people left because
> of him. Heck, even i wanted to leave everything that was related to
> FFmpeg in any way, even though all i did was keeping the server running
> and was not involved in the development or anything else at all.

Its a long time ago, but IIRC when i asked about what rules it was
that where broken back then it was a mix of silence and someone who
admited he mixed the rules of FFmpeg up with another project.

Also ive offered my resignation in the past.
I do still offer to resign from the FFmpeg leader position, if it
resolves this split between FFmpeg and Libav and make everyone work
together again. I never understood why people who once where friends
became mutually so hostile

The part i insist on though is that everyone must be able to work
on their code without people uninvolved in that specific parts
maintaince or authorship being able to block their work.

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Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB

Rewriting code that is poorly written but fully understood is good.
Rewriting code that one doesnt understand is a sign that one is less smart
then the original author, trying to rewrite it will not make it better.
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