On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 16:05:29 +0100 Paul B Mahol <one...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/28/16, compn <te...@mi.rr.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 02:22:48 +0100 > > Michael Niedermayer <mich...@niedermayer.cc> wrote: > > > >> I dont know if people want me and reynaldo to spend less time on > >> FFmpeg, but time is a finite resource. If ffserver is maintained > >> externally it would mean a noticable hit in maintaince man hours of > >> FFmpeg. Now it might be that ffserver being pushed out would kill it. > >> But really as dumb as i am, i dont belive theres a majority who wants > >> to kill FFserver when there are people who actively work on it and > >> care about it. > > > > it seems like there are at least a few developers who would feel better > > if ffserver was removed from master / moved somewhere else to die etc. > > > > these developers feel very strongly about removing ffserver. > > > > it might be wise to follow the opinions of these developers in order to > > have a higher morale and continue the working environment here in the > > project. > > > > otherwise some developers may feel betrayed, harmed, ignored, etc and > > foster hatred because their opinions were not chosen. > > > > so michael, my advice to you is to just OK the patch and deal with > > ffserver later... if enough users come back to complain about its > > demise. i feel that this discussion is going no where if both sides are > > unable to come to a compromise. > > > > sometimes you have to cut off the toe to save the patient. :) > > Exactly what happened with so called separate libpostprocess library. > Is it still being maintained? - NOPE. Because the only one who cared about it (michaelni) continued to maintain the FFmpeg git copy of it, instead of the separate repository. In other words, it was never given a chance. But somehow it ends up as argument against splitting the repo better, what a fucking joke is this? _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
