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

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2017-03-03 9:55 GMT+01:00 wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com>:
> 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.
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