[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] news: submit reworded announcement

[wm4]

On Sun,  2 Aug 2015 00:50:23 +0200
Clément Bœsch <u at pkh.me> wrote:

> From: Kieran Kunhya <kierank at ob-encoder.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Clément Bœsch <u at pkh.me>
> ---
>  src/index | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/src/index b/src/index
> index 8d7fe33..bc0ba45 100644
> --- a/src/index
> +++ b/src/index
> @@ -37,6 +37,45 @@
>      News
>    </h1>
>  
> +  <a id="message"></a><h3>August 1st, 2015, A message from the FFmpeg project</h3>
> +  <p>
> +    Dear multimedia community,
> +  </p>
> +  <p>
> +    As some of you may already know, <a
> +    href="http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2015-July/176489.html">Michael
> +    Niedermayer recently resigned as the leader of the project</a>. He has been
> +    doing an outstanding work for many years, and the project is now facing
> +    another crisis in its history. Nevertheless, the community will continue
> +    to contribute to the project and will try to satisfy as much as possible
> +    the expectations of everyone.
> +  </p>
> +  <p>
> +    To illustrate this, we are in the process of a reconciliation with the
> +    Libav project. This is a tedious and sensitive operation, that will be

Sounds offensive. How would you like if someone says that talking to
you is tedious? Yes, I know, the reconcillation talks _are_ tedious for
all of us, but the formulation sounds a bit ambiguous.

> +    notably discussed in our communities online over the coming weeks, and in
> +    person at the <a
> +    href="https://www.videolan.org/videolan/events/vdd15/">VideoLAN Developer
> +    Days</a> in Paris in September: a neutral venue for the entire open source
> +    multimedia community.
> +  </p>
> +  <p>
> +    We don't really know yet if this is going to result in anything, but in the
> +    meantime we urge our common users to avoid making any loud statements and
> +    assumption regarding both sides.
> +  </p>
> +  <p>
> +    The last four years have not been easy on our multimedia community, for
> +    both contributors and users. The current situation gives us an opportunity
> +    to find solutions to these issues, and to have reconciliation between the
> +    forks, which have split the community for so long.
> +  </p>
> +  <p>
> +    Unfortunately, much of the disagreement has taken place in inappropriate
> +    venues so far, which has made finding common ground and solutions
> +    difficult. We aim to discuss this.
> +  </p>

This is a bit too long and redundant with the new paragraphs added. I
don't understand why you felt the need to redo this at all (including
reverting the already pushed announcement).

> +
>    <a id="needhost"></a><h3>July 4th, 2015, FFmpeg needs a new host</h3>
>    <p>
>      After graciously hosting our projects (<a href="http://www.ffmpeg.org">FFmpeg</a>, <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu">MPlayer</a>