[MPlayer-dev-eng] 0.90 release plans and others
Diego Biurrun
diego at biurrun.de
Mon Jan 20 01:58:05 CET 2003
Arpi wrote:
> The real question is: what will be happening after 0.90 released?
> 8. Leave project. (*)
>
> *: not a joke. i've spent _all_ of my spare time in last 2 years on mplayer
> development, maintaining, testing, mailing, bugfixing etc. I'll give away
> the maintainer job after 0.90 (anyone interested? i hoped that Alex will
> take it but nowdays he's also about leaving the project :().
I have long feared that you would eventually burn out. Seems like it is
finally the case...
How about just unsubscribing from -users and doing only the fun bits of
MPlayer development?
> IMHO mplayer is good enough now that it won't lost in /dev/null if i leave.
Probably not, but will it lose the race against xine?
> (but it really needs a new code maintainer - or maybe not: i can imagine
> that it may work unmaintained, ie. everyone with cvs access will commit
> everything, it will result in more unstable code, but also much faster
> improvement/more features. or it will just go mad and turns to be unusably
> unstable in a few weeks. who knows... see egcs vs. gcc story as example)
How did this gcc - egcs thing go?
In any case thanks for bearing with us for so long and starting all this.
Don't go.
Diego
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