[FFmpeg-devel] [ANNOUNCE] New FFmpeg maintainership

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 02:09:35AM -0800, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Reimar D?ffinger
> <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:02:51PM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> >> Hi Stefano,
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Stefano Sabatini
> >> <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:
> >> > On date Wednesday 2011-01-19 01:58:53 +0100, Diego Biurrun encoded:
> >> >> The discontent reached the point where a fork was being contemplated
> >> >> and then planned, but it turned out that the momentum had soared way
> >> >> past critical mass and turned into a tidal wave of revolution. ?The
> >> >> focus moved from forking to avoiding a fork if possible.
> >> >
> >> > But unfortunately it never passed from considering to ask to the
> >> > person/s which were considered the cause of the "problem" to change
> >> > for the last time, or to discuss this publically, giving a chance to
> >> > these persons to defend themselves, and eventually pose an ultimatum
> >> > and act in the case they failed.
> >>
> >> I've read this statement by various people in a variety of ways now. I
> >> want to make something very clear: this is not true. I won't spill all
> >> the details, but suffice to say that we felt that we tried enough and
> >> that another approach was needed to advance.
> >
> > Then I'll clearly tell you that you were obviously the only ones to notice
> > your attempts.
> 
> Not to take either side of the argument here, but logically, how can
> you possibly speak for anyone other than yourself?  Do you have
> psychic powers that allow you to divine what everyone else on the
> project noticed or did not notice?

Feel free to change it to something like "obviously a whole lot of
people did not notice", I made the mistake of not reconsidering before
hitting send. Though it is quite possible to speak for other people
without needing psychic powers (e.g. I can't imagine anyone being surprised
having noticed any significant attempts really), but please let's not
start a discussion about a silly but IMO still understandable statement.