[FFmpeg-devel] Request for Technical committee action

[Zachariah Brown]

I'm just an independent observer who has submitted just a single trivial 
patch that decided to stay subscribed to this mailing list to keep up to 
date with what is happening. I have no bone in this game but I feel like 
something needs to be said.

Let me just say that this entire thread does not look good on the 
community as a whole. And yes, I read the entire threads before deciding 
to reply to this because I felt compelled to say something.

Paul, no body attacked you in anyway personally. I don't know what 
happened in the past because I've only been here for a couple of months, 
but it was very clear that Steinar was being purely objective about your 
patch. He provided valid criticism (which I agree with after looking at 
his evidence) about the result of the filter. You then proceeded to turn 
the multiple threads into personal attacks and claims that you were 
being discriminated against. That simply isn't the case.

You then proceeded to say that everyone is just wrong with no 
explanation as to why. When asked to leave comments your response was 
effectively "git gud". Comments are just as vital to a well maintained 
code base as good code is. I can say a lot more about this, but I'll 
leave it there.

And now you are threatening to do what? Your initial email in this 
thread was 12 hours ago, and from my limited understanding to how the 
FFmpeg development process works these committees just finished the 
voting process not too long ago and are a new concept entirely. You are 
hardly giving anyone time to look at the situation.

You need to take a chill pill, step back for a few days and let the dust 
settle. I'm not attacking you or being hostile, but your attitude in 
general is not that of someone that I would want to have on my team or 
have access to my code repos. There is a reason for peer review, to 
produce better quality code and a better resulting product. But that 
takes time, you can't rush it or threaten to go around people. That just 
degrades the situation further.

-Zachariah

On 7/20/2020 4:05 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On 7/20/20, Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Look at thread:
>>
>> avfilter: add ff_inlink_peek_samples and ff_inlink_skip samples
>>
>> Another developer is constantly blocking my patches.
>>
> If TC does not act soon I will be forced to do it myself.
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