[FFmpeg-user] Troublemaker in bugtracker

Mark Filipak (ffmpeg) markfilipak at bog.us
Tue Jan 26 04:14:48 EET 2021


On 01/25/2021 07:30 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 1:18 AM Phil Rhodes via ffmpeg-user <
> ffmpeg-user at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> 
>>   On Monday, 25 January 2021, 22:34:35 GMT, Mark Filipak (ffmpeg) <
>> markfilipak at bog.us> wrote:
>>
>>> Your comments, Leo, are quite correct. However, there is no F*ing
>> Manual. There is only man-style
>>> documentation that supplies usage reminders to those who are already
>> familiar with ffmpeg and its > usage, but that doesn't help newcomers. I
>> wish the reality was different, and I've volunteered to > help with
>> documentation, but the developers have rebuffed me and everyone else who
>> has similarly > volunteered.
>> Very much so. I may be one of the volunteers Mark is referring to.
>> In the end it's a very long term problem that exists with a lot of open
>> source projects and I don't see a solution to it. When you have people who
>> are determined to treat others with contempt and hostility as a matter of
>> course, who reject even the most well-meaning offers of help with the most
>> pressing issues, who almost seem to make a science out of deliberate,
>> studied unpleasantness, something strange is going on.
>> More than annoying, it's weird. I've never once in my life encountered
>> anything like this. It's completely unnecessary, completely
>> self-destructive, and appears to gain nothing for anyone.
>>
> 
> Yes, we need to use only corporate code.

What does that mean, Paul?


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