[FFmpeg-devel] CC statement on alleged insults against the GSoC student et al

[Marth64]

Hello,

The FFmpeg Community Committee (CC) has received a complaint regarding
alleged insults from Kieran against Yigithan and Michael.

After careful review, the CC did not find any recent comments from
Kieran that would constitute an insult against either of the alleged
targets. The CC did not even find any criticism of Yigithan from
Kieran or anyone else. Kieran did negatively criticise Michael for
changing the topic of the discussion from GSoC to an old inflammatory
subject. Leaving out subjective value judgements, the CC finds that
Kieran’s claim was essentially valid.

Kieran then also negatively criticised the project’s software
development practices. The CC believes that criticism ought to be
permissible as long as it is not insulting, defamatory, threatening,
or unnecessarily derisive or inflammatory. Kieran’s opinions are
ostensibly shared by many active FFmpeg contributors, and do not seem
to qualify as insults.

Nevertheless, the CC does issue a warning regarding unnecessarily
offensive recent comments by Kieran on other topics, as well as for
initially failing to provide background and context regarding Paul’s
action on IRC.

On that note, everybody, please keep in mind that not all FFmpeg-devel
subscribers and archive readers actively follow #ffmpeg-devel.

On behalf of the CC,
Best regards,
Marth64