[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v3 0/7] Merge lazy filter initialization in ffmpeg CLI

[wm4]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 16:32:36 -0300
James Almer <jamrial at 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.