[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] fix seeking in demux_lavf

[Uoti Urpala]

On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 05:17 +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Its not as if i would want some kind of monarchy, its just that half of
> the new mails here where about a bunch of monkeys fighting about a piece of a
> 7 year old banana while they had plenty of fresh ones.
> Why exactly did diego fight so fiercely to remove 1 harmless line from
> a file maintained by ivan?

What else do you suggest he could have done? Give up on doing anything
when Ivan sends some trolling mails with no real content?

>  Have we run out of dirty code that needs to
> be cleaned up And that can be cleaned up easily in a non provocative way?
> Must be so ...

How was the way he did it provocative? He posted a patch, and if Ivan
had any reasons why not to apply it he could have posted them.

> If we had a leader, he could have made a clear decission and shortened
> this discussion, not that i think it didnt had some entertainment value ;)
> Its even rather irrelevant what decission would have been taken as neither
> way really seems to have any practically relevant disadvantages. Neither the
> removal nor keeping this line would affect more than VERY few users.

There was actually little any technically relevant discussion; after all
the reason that there was controversy at all was Ivan's trolling and
refusal to give reasons. Half of the thread was compn sending some
rather pointless/clueless mails. So I view this "incident" mostly as
mailing list trolling.