Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
by remram on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:34PM
(#25127656)
I didn't expect any "3 minute solution", but realistically they didn't even have to get the problem fixed. They could have pledged to assist youtube-dl by now, helped them file a counter-notice sometime this week (surely they can get 1 lawyer's time for pressing PR matters), and figured out how to deal with the human resource situation over the coming months.
Instead they found a million dollars (!!!), wrote a blog post with explicit commitments, but then waited on somebody else to step up. It just doesn't add up.
Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
by Fumtumi on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @03:08PM
(#25129017)
Someone on github had to care for this project; Then someone with the proper level had to care for this and understand the situation.
Then you need meetings.
You need to 'coordinate' your message or whatever.
You need to talk to the legal department and stuff.
What is not 'adding up'?
And why is it an issue that it took a little bit?
Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
by remram on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @02:45PM
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I agree with you completely. Someone high-up needs to care for this to get going.
GitHub's CEO claimed he cared, October 27: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1321221940774723584
The fact that he didn't get a coordinated message or anything at all in the following three weeks shows how much he really did.
I'm not sure why this is so unrelatable to you but for me, daily business is, that things just take 1-3 weeks.
Legal manpower still means, that people interrupt their current tasks, which they properly have plenty of, to reprioritize something, others might even not care about at all or never heard of.
I stay with my statement and i have enough live experience, that i don't expect a 3 minute solution and answer from github.com