[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavc: remove the QOA decoder

[Nicolas George]

Vittorio Giovara (12023-12-05):
> Your attitude for "omgfeatures" is also pretty toxic, there are heaps of
> literature about feature creep and how important it is to remove dead code.

You should read said literature before quoting it, you would learn the
difference between more features and feature creep: creeping features
make it harder to maintain core features.

So, can you prove that this QOA decoder makes it harder to maintain the
framework of FFmpeg? No, you cannot.

> Uhhh, but maybe I'm just misinterpreting your message, but that looks like
> a very ignorant comparison.

It is not ignorant at all, you show exactly the same argument structure.

Homophobes cannot prove homosexuality causes objective and immediate
harm to anybody.

You cannot prove that Paul's code causes objective and immediate harm to
the project.

So homophobes resort to invoking a vague harm to society / youth /
whatever.

So you resort to invoking a vague harm to a generation.

You do it because you have a strong intuition that it is true.

Homophobes have a strong intuition that it is true too.

But intuition without arguments has no place in a debate, it cannot
convince anybody.

And your intuition is just as wrong as the homophobes'.

In this instance, your intuition is wrong because it applies to FFmpeg
what it knows about professional projects — open or closed source —
whereas FFmpeg is not a professional project but a Libre Software
projects whose most talented contributors work for fun.

In a professional project, the time and effort of developers is limited
and must be focused on useful things. In a project like FFmpeg, the time
and effort that talented developers invest in the project grows as they
can work on fun tasks, even when said tasks are of limited usefulness.

A sure way of killing a project like FFmpeg is to prevent people from
working on the things they find fun and try to force them to do useful
things instead, either by outright rejecting if you have the authority
or by drowning them with bickering and demands, like you did with
Michael and like you just ran Paul out.

Good job.

-- 
  Nicolas George
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