[FFmpeg-devel] Democratic election of the server admins

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 12:26:59AM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 03:58:13PM -0700, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
> >> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Jason Garrett-Glaser
> >> <darkshikari at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> >> >> Hello thouse who rule, thouse who are all the developers of ffmpeg.
> >> >>
> >> >> I belive that ffmpeg as fundamentally democratic project
> >> >
> >> > It's rather hard to be a "fundamentally democratic project" with you
> >> > as the BDFL.
> >> >
> >> > Not that there's anything wrong with that. ?Democracy is overrated.
> >> >
> >> > Dark Shikari
> >> >
> >> 
> >> To elaborate: mixing politics and coding is a terrible, terrible,
> >> terrible idea.  Creating "elections" in a project that is primarily
> >> about coding is going to do nothing but create unnecessary divisions,
> >> hassle, and animosity.  If you want to pick admins, find a better way
> >> to do it.
> >
> > iam not sure, if i agree with you, after all ffmpeg is not me but all
> > the people on this list who contribute. I simply dont feel that i have
> > the authority to replace one of the server admins. Also i do not want
> > to do such a decission without the other developers agreeing.
> > Basically i dont want to be a evil dictator ...
> > And i dont want to point at anyone and say nasty things any more than i
> > have to. And arguing "why" would require such finger pointing.
> > And ive said enough nasty things in the cvslog discussions already
> 
> If you want me out, just say so.  It won't make a difference.

I want people to discuss controversal changes on ffmpeg-dev before they do
them. I also want people to discuss completely broken warning fixes on
ffmpeg-dev before they are commited and i want people to clean their
messed up warning fix attempts up if they mess up.

and i never said i wanted you out, you read more into what i wrote than
what i actually wrote.
Your work on arm optims, configure, the makefiles, and hundreads of other
small and large things are very important to the project.
I do NOT want you out

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Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB

Rewriting code that is poorly written but fully understood is good.
Rewriting code that one doesnt understand is a sign that one is less smart
then the original author, trying to rewrite it will not make it better.
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