On Sat, 28 Dec 2024, 01:20 James Almer, <jamr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/27/2024 10:15 PM, Vittorio Giovara wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 8:04 PM James Almer <jamr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On 12/27/2024 9:58 PM, Vittorio Giovara wrote: > >>> On Tue, Dec 24, 2024 at 11:46 AM Michael Niedermayer < > >> mich...@niedermayer.cc> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi Anton > >>>> > >>>> On Tue, Dec 24, 2024 at 06:24:40AM +0100, Anton Khirnov wrote: > >>>>> Quoting Michael Niedermayer (2024-12-23 21:37:32) > >>>>>> If i stand by and do nothing, THAT would be abusing of my power > >>>>> > >>>>> Behold, the favorite excuse of every tin-pot dictator ever. > >>>>> > >>>>> So boiling down your verbal vomit, I get > >>>>> > >>>>> Yes, your democracy IS just pretend and I - the person who > >>>>> > >>>>> * tries very very hard to avoid as much human contact as > possible > >>>>> * oversaw one of the most toxic FOSS communities for close > >>>>> to 25 years > >>>>> * through heavy-handed authoritarianism directly caused one of > the > >>>>> most notorious forks in FOSS history > >>>>> > >>>>> really do know better than everyone else how to run a > community. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> To that I say: > >>>>> * you are delusional, as you are the source or enabler of all the > >>>>> toxicity > >>>>> * Libav had NONE of these problems (not saying it was perfect - it > did > >>>>> have other problems, but not these) > >>>>> * there is no hope for this project as long as you continue to hold > the > >>>>> reins and I've wasted enough of my life on it. > >>>> > >>>> If the democracy is just pretend, then above all, you certainly will > >>>> agree that my SDR code would have been pushed to git master. > >>>> It was not. > >>>> > >>> > >>> OH MY GOD, you are not bringing this up again! Ever heard of the > >> expression > >>> "the exception that proves the rule"? Think how much community outlash > it > >>> received and how much effort it took from EVERYONE to prevent you from > >>> doing something NOBODY wanted. > >>> > >>> You should really drop the "it's totally a democracy, except I can do > >> what > >>> I like" stance you have. Repeat after me > >>> > >>> > >> > 👏it's👏not👏a👏democracy👏if👏I👏can👏be👏judge👏jury👏and👏executioner👏 > >>> > >>> You are not him, and never will be. > >> > >> Vittorio, this is not ok at all. I don't even know who "him" is, but the > >> second half of this email is out of the line. > >> > > > > It's a meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bro-thinks-hes-him-im-him > > > > It's really sad that a CC representative is taking sides and victim > > shaming, when the very people of this community are leaving (forcibly or > > not) because of this thread. > > I'm not taking sides, i want things to calm down. >
Wanting things to calm down does not justify bothsidesism: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/bothsidesing-bothsidesism-new-words-were-watching You have outrageous and unprecedented behaviour from two people censoring the mailing list without any recourse. The people criticising this are not the problem. Kieran > _______________________________________________ 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".
