On Fri, Mar 8, 2024 at 6:01 PM Kieran Kunhya <kier...@obe.tv> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 at 16:50, Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > > > Kieran Kunhya (12024-03-08): > > > New contributors are not interested in your biased history lessons. > They > > > want to write code and have a modern, well run project, not a > > dysfunctional > > > mess. > > > > And we go back to the core question: does the strength of this project > > come from paid-for contributors maintaining each small parts of the > > project, or does it come from hackers who play with many parts of the > > code and have original ideas to try? > > > > I think the answer is obvious. > > > > Unfortunately, the first category is the majority in number. Which is > > why we should go back on democracy, it was a trap, and re-instate a > > project leader from the second category. Or just consider that the > > ousting of the leader was unlawful. > > > > The world moved on. Open Source projects which are anarchy are few and far > between (basically us). New contributors prefer stability over chaos. > What's worrisome is that old contributors who don't agree with the status quo are free to fork the project and create their own utopia, I don't understand how being in an abusive relationship with this project is any beneficial to OP or the project itself. -- Vittorio _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
