On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 16:32:36 -0300 James Almer <jamr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/2/2017 2:27 PM, wm4 wrote: > > Well, you already announced that you'd leave the project a few months > > ago or so, but nothing happened. As an (apparently involuntary) de-facto > > project leader who refuses to fix the leadership associated problems of > > the project, it's of course not strange that you get attacked once in a > > while. Even if you deny being a project leader, you hold a tad too many > > central key positions. > > > > I realize you probably just want to write code and not deal with these > > issues. But on the other hand it seems you're stuck in this position > > whether or not you or we want it. The best idea I can come up is to > > nominate a new project leader, but I don't know who could do that _and_ > > keep the project together. > > Big project decisions pass through the voting committee now. Is it flawed > and too crowded? yes, but it's better than total anarchy. > > Nothing Michael's doing in this thread by reviewing your patchset is even > remotely related to being a project leader. His emails and regression > reports could have come from anyone else and have the same effect on this > patchset. Those remarks were more in general. Michael has a special status even if it's just about those patch reviews though, because he's officially maintainer of ffmpeg.c. > > I understand your frustration, as i also had to go through several > iterations of a big merge like this one after Michael pointed out some > regressions, including identifying some false positives like the timebase > change he reported earlier today, but it doesn't justify lashing out at > people who are simply pointing out issues. Again, it was about the way he did. (Low quality reports with particularly bad timing.) > > > > > Currently, we as a project can't make decisions, and nobody even knows > > the damn rules we're supposed to play by. If it's just me, could > > someone please set me straight? > > This is not true, we have had several votes by now with different results. > API decisions, deprecation/removal decisions, etc. > I liked some, i hated others, but respected all of them. Everyone did. If you believe it. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
