[FFmpeg-devel] Worsening messages

[Kieran Kunhya]

It's Christmas day, give it a rest.

Kieran

On Wed, Dec 25, 2024 at 1:31 PM Michael Niedermayer
<michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
>
> Hi Community, Community Commitee, Moderators
>
> The message: lists.ffmpeg.org pipermail ffmpeg-devel/2024-December/337868.html
> Is unacceptable. We had alot of messages but this one went too far.
> This kind of message, could be in the result of a search on my name.
> And a person, customer or otherwise could quite plausible belive its content.
>
> This would have real world consequences for me, even if i spend a week replying
> to every claim in that message, as the person finding such message likely would
> not even try to read all the replies, which would correct all claims, one by one.
> I could loose customers, be denined a future job or opertunity or other.
>
> Thus I/we will have to remove this message from the archives. Also the only way
> to prevent this from endlessly reoccuring is to moderate its author. which
> I intend to implement unless the CC decides for a different solution.
>
> This was also not a mail written in jest or a mail written in anger.
>
> As the server admin, i cannot leave messages that target people like this
> on our server and under our domain.
>
> Not to even mention the tremendous amount of time it takes to go over
> one accusation at a time and argue about it. Time FFmpeg falls behind with the
> next release, time FFmpeg accumulates unfixed security issues. Both are already
> happening as a consequence of similar mails sent over the last months, yes
> i spend more time in this sort of thing than being able to work on FFmpeg.
>
> thx
>
> PS: if anyone actually wants to discuss any claim that where made in that mail.
> Thats of course possible. But it cannot be in the form of making
> accusations/claims and requiring them to be corrected.
>
> --
> Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB
>
> The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
> -- Epicurus
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