On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:09:43 +0100 Michael Niedermayer <mich...@niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> less than 2 weeks ago the founder was insulted like this: > "Fabrice's control of ffmpeg.org and French trademark, despite not havign > contributed > in 20 years, purely for ego reasons mean we can never move to a truly > community run set or project infra." > > And we can probably go on and on. > On top of this i would not be surprised if other people have similar stories > from yet others they spoke with. a non-ff developer at vdd said i was "inactive for years". it makes me not want to visit vdd again. i reported them to the videolan board, but the videolan board never even bothered to reply to my mail. i dont think the videolan code of conduct has any enforcement, despite them saying how awesome the videolan code of conduct is. i also question how "strong" their board/project is if it cant even ack a code of conduct complaint in 20+ days. thats not strong, its non functional. i have maintained a few things these last 5 years, although i havent been active on the ml. i've done hundreds of hours of work in the past 5 years on ffmpeg. including moderating the mailing lists, which i've done since ~2006. now that i have more time recently i'm back to doing patch reviews on ml, answering questions to new developers in #ffmpeg-devel. there is a huge hole now that carl has left the bug trac. his work was super under appreciated. developers for years would attack and threaten him for insignificant things, example because he marked a bug invalid/wontfix. i come back to the mailing list and see so much infighting. for no reason. 9 year old mail quotes? nonsense! are you trying to chase more developers from the project? calling developers inactive? calling developers paranoid? calling developers to step down? > Not realizing that the domain is held by the founder who belongs to the > community, not realizing most of the root admins are active members of > the community. arpi, alex and reimar are certainly ffmpeg committers and part of the community. it was a shock when someone asked who they were. -compn _______________________________________________ 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".
