[FFmpeg-devel] 4.4 Release Name

[Soft Works]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
> RADSL
> Sent: Saturday, April 3, 2021 4:23 PM
> To: ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] 4.4 Release Name
> 
> 
> On 4/3/2021 6:02 AM, Lynne wrote:
> > Apr 3, 2021, 12:19 by jb at videolan.org:
> >
> >> On Sat, 3 Apr 2021, at 11:50, Zane van Iperen wrote:
> >>
> >>> Personally no, I prefer "plandemic" for reasons given previously.
> >>>
> >>> However, Michael is right in saying that it could be taken the wrong way.
> >>>
> >> This is Internet and social networks in 2021.
> >> It WILL be taken in the wrong way.
> >>
> >> Do NOT use anything political or related to the news in naming. Never
> >> Ever. It might be badly taken, but mostly you have NO idea how it
> >> will be taken in the future…
> >>
> >> Take a mathematician, a computer genius or a fantasy name. There are
> >> plenty
> >>
> >
> Michael is right indeed,
> we are stuck with search engine A.I. sadly which will never know what is lie
> and truth.
> so why not version 4.4 Niedermayer? for all the nice work you did Michael?

I don't know whether I have a vote with my tiny number of contributions, but my very first thought was: why honor dead persons instead of some that really deserve it in context of ffmpeg?

+1 for Niedermayer

softworkz