[FFmpeg-devel] [ANOUNCEMENT] ffmpeg.org

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:31:45PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Monday, 14 March 2011 at 22:55, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 09:28:08PM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > > Diego Biurrun <diego <at> biurrun.de> writes:
> > > 
> > > > > Micheal does _not_ control the project, not by far. Due to everyone
> > > > > having commit access he has much less control than any single of the
> > > > > committers.
> > > > 
> > > > You seem to have been working on a different project the last
> > > > few years.
> > > 
> > > Yes, definitely!
> > > 
> > > (To those who read this message in the future: Diego wasn't active on ffmpeg for
> > > several months before he tried - unsuccessfully - to take over FFmpeg together
> > > with the other persons working as root.)
> > 
> > Haha :)
> > 
> > To those who read this message in the future: I basically stopped working
> > on FFmpeg because I was fed up.  Before that I was extremely active for
> > several years, I'm the person with the 2nd most commits in FFmpeg.
> 
> And how much of that was not reformatting, cosmetics or documentation
> grammar/style fixes?

Lots.

> I'm not trying to diminish your significant contributions to the project,

Hmmmm

> I'm just saying a simple number of commits doesn't tell the whole story.

I never claimed that.  Commits, however, are a good measure of activity.
Carl Eugen made a statement about my activity and I explained why it went
down.

Diego