[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: homepage/src news-archive.src.en,1.32,1.33

[Diego Biurrun]

Michael Niedermayer writes:
> 
> On Saturday 25 September 2004 14:37, Diego Biurrun CVS wrote:
> >
> > Modified Files:
> >  news-archive.src.en
> > Log Message:
> > Remove anti-Debian flame, this has been present for far too long.  Besides,
> > it has never been true.
> 
> i use debian and like it, though it IMHO sucks in many ways, other 
> distributions suck too

That's exactly what I think and everybody seems to agree judging from
the fact that about 80% of the devs use Debian.

> and i was not happy about the anti debian flame

I was furious, but back then I was the only one who spoke up against
it, unfortunately.

> but modifying other peoples news entries against their will (i
> assume gabu didnt agree)

I did not ask Gabu for permission, no.  (Do I have to?  He left the
project..)

> and without clearly marking the modification as such is IMHO
> something we really shouldnt do, it now looks as if gabu said
> something he didnt say

You have a point.  Nevertheless, there has never been a clear policy
on this.  I assume Gabu did not have permission from Alex to modify
his news entry:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/homepage/src/news.src.en.diff?r1=1.38&r2=1.39

I'm not opposed to leaving news entries untouched when they express
somebody's personal opinion and/or to preserve history.  But I am very
much opposed to personal opinions (and much less very inflammatory
ones) being voiced *in the name of the project* and thus in the name
of people who disagree with it.  Associating people with an opinion
they do not share is unacceptable IMO.  There has to be a balance
between being allowed to modify somebody else's entries and what you
are allowed to write when it comes across as more than a personal
opinion.

So let's strike a compromise here: I'll reinstate Gabu's original
words in the news entry and add a NOTE or similar to the effect of
"The following (inflammatory) statements do not represent the opinion of
the MPlayer project as a whole." or "The following (inflammatory)
statements just represent the opinion of the news entry author.".

OK?

Diego