Re:FFmpeg's future and resigning as leader
by makomk on Friday July 31, 2015 @11:42AM
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The libav side have consistently refused to merge code from the ffmpeg side of the split, including security fixes, have written their own incompatible versions of any APIs the ffmpeg developers come up with, and been generally hostile, and he's the one that's had to deal with the mess for the past several years.
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"Refused" ? In Libav any patch has to go through review, anything that had been put in review had been managed as any other patches by any other sources.
Libav is about rules and not leaders.
After seeing a few of the comments from libav developers here and on IRC, you can see the bitterness is still alive. :-(
if everything that somebody from the libav side says here is automatically labelled bitterness and downvoted, maybe you can understand why some are indeed bitter.
I've never heard of this split up until today, why are you still salty? You won, you can take over the world now.
Your users don't care about rules, and rules need manpower.
If your rules prevent you from keeping your software secure, you don't have enough manpower to do what is in your user's best interests.