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On 11/02/13 22:33, Peter Stuge wrote: |
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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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The reason behind Fabrice actions is probably the same behind me trying |
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for 3 months to not having to go the way it went. I got to change my |
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mind since I was involved, Fabrice hadn't been since ages and he is |
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doing something totally different nowadays. |
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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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It is not related to users, is related to me being called as swine a |
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traitor and having death threats. *Slightly* less technical than |
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discussing API. |
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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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The rules in Libav are quite well defined and decently enforced. |
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Again, if you have ~15 people and one is deemed misbehaving by more than |
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10, which is the fork? |
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