Wow, reading this now very old discussion makes me cringe a little bit when I see dingers like these:

    > If you think it is easy, VLC is open-source: you are welcome to provide the easy patch. Somehow, I won't be holding my breath.

    > If it's so easy, why are you not doing it? Talk is cheap.

    > I'll be waiting for your patch. Surely you're not as lazy and incompetent as the existing volunteer developers.

    > And I don't take moral lesson from an hypocrit who feels like they can demand work from "toxic" volunteers and even state that they are not there to do any actual work.

There are so many (passive-)aggressive comments in that discussion. This is the primary reason why I never get involved with open source projects any more. The discussions are so toxic. I always wind up feeling terrible about myself after "trying to help" an open source project by reporting bugs or submitting patches to fix bugs.