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Luca Barbato wrote: |
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> May I point you that ~10 people were the majority of what was FFmpeg, |
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> thus 10 people were enough to demote democratically the so called Leader |
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> and that guy got the name from Fabrice as his personal decision? |
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There was probably a reason for Fabrice to do that, and majority and |
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democracy doesn't have much to do with it. It is more likely that 10 |
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people are "right" than that 3 are, but a group of 10 is still quite |
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small. I wouldn't mind reading about the backstory. Do you know of |
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some good links beyond the two that were posted already? |
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> I'm perfectly happy to develop my code as long I'm not dragged in the |
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> mud with outlandish statement or people annoying the hell of me because |
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> they want to force me to merge because would be so better. |
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Users will never be satisfied. But I guess you agree that API |
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compatibility will certainly avoid extra problems for users. |
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> Well, you are talking to one of the two guys that spent about 3 months |
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> behind the scenes trying to compose the situation before it ended with |
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> the in theory normal demotion of a so-called Leader by democratic means. |
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I don't think open source neccessarily is democracy, and of course a |
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disagreement about something fairly fundamental such as that can |
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be more than enough to cause a fork. |
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> Sadly or luckily the whole thing ended with us (the majority) |
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> having to give up the name and picking a different one. |
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I think the name itself doesn't matter much (FWIW I think libav is a |
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much better name) but API compatibility is a big deal, and all |
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branches should really make an effort to stay compatible. |
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//Peter |
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