[FFmpeg-devel] root access voting

[compn]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:07:26 +0100
"J. Dekker" <jdek at itanimul.li> wrote:

> compn <ff at hawaiiantel.net> writes:
> These mails simply leave me confused:

My apologies. I was trying to clarify things but this mail I wrote was
so bad it only caused grief. It was not my intent and thats why I asked
people to ignore my mail.

> - Why is Michael asking what my profession is?

Michael was asking your profession to find out if you administrate
servers as part of your profession. (the requirement for being a root).

see here
https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2024-November/335620.html

>And to be clear here, i have no problem with josh or marvin
>its the context, the lack of a clear reason why they want admin access and
>also the lack of a clear "iam a professional admin thats my day job"

> - Why is Compn concerned with my prior work history

see above, i was trying to clarify why michael was asking ^. but my
email came out wrong. so wrong. it came out sounding angry.

i've spent so long in this project deciphering english-second-language
mails between developers. its a weird skill to learn. things would go
10000x smoother in the project if people just ask each other to clarify
each others emails when confused. or if people wrote out their reasons
for their opinions. its why i ask what peoples goals are.

people were asking me at vdd to decipher michaels emails. although
maybe i snapped after people went the supervillain route of
understanding his mails yet again.

people should just ask for clarity in a reply email instead of assuming
the worst supervillain reasons for everything. because theres no reason
for supervillain thoughts. if you see what you think is a rude email
from michael or anyone else just reply and ask them what they mean.
this should be rule #1 in ffmpeg mailing list.

this is why i appreciate your mail asking for clarification! :)

> - Why am I not being held to the same standard as Michael with regards
>   to privacy?

good question. i dont know what michael or fabrice look like either. i
think my point was meeting people in person means very little from a
security point of view. it just means you met someone. without a way to
verify their identity.

>   More sad or funny or maybe both, but having met Compn in the previous
>   VDD and spent the community day in the same team hunting around the
>   city, I maybe somewhat expected to get the benefit of the doubt. I'm
>   just confused as to why this is a question at all.
> 
>   I certainly enjoyed my time with him, and learning more about the
>   early days of the project (of which I was obviously not involved). 

I also had fun at vdd with you and the team.


> But
>   it also highlighted to me further how fragmented our infrastructure
>   is. Distribution and redundancy is of course preferred and what I am
>   trying to achieve, but it doesn't work if the parts don't know about
>   each other or choose not to work with each other.

we're all in agreement here. 
see michaels quest for backup servers:
https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2024-November/335620.html

-compn