On 11/24/2024 6:24 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
Hi

On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 06:02:55PM -0300, James Almer wrote:
On 11/24/2024 5:43 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
Hi

On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 04:11:42PM -0300, James Almer wrote:
On 11/24/2024 4:09 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
Now reality is, Paul (the 2nd most active developer of all time) was bullied
out of FFmpeg. In private mail he spoke about being treated like a slave.

Huh?? By whom?

by the community, by us all

maybe "bullied" is a badly choosen word here, but the way i understand it, is 
paul
dislike having to deal with "disturbing" reviews

I think only Nicolas was against his patches in general, sometimes for a
fair reason, others probably not so much. I at least helped him every time i
could.

There has to be another reason for him to leave like he did.

Iam fairly sure, if we would have left him change whatever he wants in his
code and gave him final authority there that he would not have left.

But he could do that. He did it all the time, and rarely got opposition since it was almost always for filters he wrote and maintained.


BUT i do not know that

He also pushed patches to his stuff bypassing the mailing list and review
process. It introduced a bug or 2 and I think i pointed that out. I dont
remember at all how i worded that.

And there was teh conflicts where he pointed to bugs but refused to provide
samples or details, making fixing them often impossible. While he caused
this it lead to further friction. This really feels like a failure of mutual
understanding, noone benefitted from this

Not adding test was a problem, yes. Such a trivial thing to do for most filters and he'd still refuse.


Also teh CC was re-elected at the time of him leaving IIRC. He may have 
preceived
that a ban or harsh actions against him where imminent from the new CC.
Thing is that nothing like that was imminent.

He got a temp ban (like a week?) after several warnings for being too aggressive in his replies. I don't know why he was aggressive to begin with, and i even asked him to stop before anything was done.


I dont know how to undo the decissions from the past. But i want to undo
what led to paul leaving


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