[FFmpeg-devel] Democratization

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le maanantaina 20. tammikuuta 2025, 20.14.41 UTC+2 Gyan Doshi a écrit :
> On 2025-01-20 11:14 pm, Soft Works wrote:
> > - An indication that the aim and direction of the contribution is
> > 
> >    generally acceptable
> 
> This the crux of the matter. There appear to be two camps at odds with
> one another:
> 
> 1) a conservative camp which wants to avoid features or changes which
> don't neatly fit within a conventional pure architecture with clear
> separation of roles and duties, or features which are of use only to
> some users
> 
> and,
> 
> 2) a broadband camp which accepts features which are niche or which
> require some hybrid accommodation in its implementation.

As far as I can tell, there are actually three camps.

Michael frequently insists on keeping everything and everyone together. He is 
also a partner at a business whose clients are ostensibly in what you call 
camp 1. And he proposes camp 2 features. So I can't pin him in either camps. 
(I don't mean to pick on Michael here; he just happens to be the most obvious 
person not to fit in your dichotomy.)

Maybe what you call two camps would be happy divorcees. But that would leave 
the third camp very sad. In fact, I personally believe that if FFlabs had not 
incorporated, or Michael had not been a part of that venture, then the two 
camps they would quite likely be separate as you surmise.

Then again, with ifs, one can remake the world.

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