[MPlayer-dev-eng] Commit rules and coexistence rules

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 04:35:35PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 02:29:36PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:45:17AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
[...]
> > > IMNSHO the active developers should be the ones running the show.
> > 
> > The project is "run" by our docs maintainer who is not a developer at all.
> > If you suggest to step back and let reimar & evgeny & ben & luca take over
> > root i would support this.
> > But that wont happen, you will never step back and let the people who
> > actally write the code have the reins. You just use devel activity as
> > argument when it serves your goals ...
> 
> False.  I am the one who wants to have the people who actually write the
> code have the reins, 

> not you.

i did not want to reply, but this statement feels too insulting to let it
stand
i know better than you what i want. And i would be happy to see the
active developers have the reins. (except uoti but that is the only
exception)


> 
> Now you say that I am not a developer, because it serves your goals of
> discrediting me.  Even if it were true, it would not have any bearing
> on this discussion.
> 
> May I kindly remind you of the following words from Reimar, which you
> conveniently choose to ignore because it serves your interest of
> painting me into the evil overlord corner:
> 
>   Before anyone flames too hard: I asked for Diego to publish these
>   numbers.
> 
> How come you are allowed to call me "not a developer" to discredit me,

You have the highest raw commit count but the lowest of self written C code.


> but I am not allowed to publish commit statistics (at Reimar's request)?

Who forbade you to publish them?!


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