On 05/16/2017 04:21 PM, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> On 05/16/2017 01:17 AM, Simon Lees wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 05/16/2017 07:09 AM, Vincent Torri wrote:
>>> https://ffmpeg.org/developer.html#Code-of-conduct
>>>
>>
>> I don't think a code of conduct is really necessary here, my reading of
>> this thread having spent some time talking to William on IRC in the
>> prior is that if people communicated with some care none of this would
>> have ever happened.
>>
>> I'm going to call people out here because they should know and do
>> better. Raster your communication in this thread has been that of an
>> utter jerk I don't think I missed anything but there was absolutely no
>> reason why you should have started using the language and tone you did.
>>
>> Had you written one clear email better outlining the way the project
>> works in a nicer tone i'm guessing this would be resolved and there
>> would be no issue. An example of this could be yes any developer may
>> push a simple work around fix to any repo as they see it (although if
>> they are not active there its best to first check with someone who is)
>> at a later date if someone comes up with a better fix they can just
>> revert the temporary fix.
>>
>> Had you communicated with me in the way you communicated with William
>> when I first joined the project I wouldn't still be here now. From
>> everything i've seen William seems like a decent person with good
>> intentions who has seen a problem (the lack of a decent simple text
>> editor for enlightenment) and is trying to fix that problem we really
>> should be encouraging people like that not putting them off. We have
>> often spoken about ways to get people better engaged with the community
>> both from inside and outside Samsung, what you have done in this thread
>> is taken someone who was actively trying to get involved in our
>> community and turned them away, which is really quite disappointing. I
>> know your busy at TDC but I suggest that once your back you should go
>> out of your way to try and repair the situation your poor communication
>> has caused. There is nothing wrong with the action you did in commenting
>> out some code (within how we tend to work as a community) but your
>> communication around it absolutely stank.
>>
>> I'm also going to call out Stephen because in this thread you simply
>> acted like a Jerk without adding anything of meaning to the discussion.
>>
>> To finish let me be clear if someone comes in here acting like an arse I
>> have no problem with them being put in there place and sent away our
>> community shouldn't have to tolerate people being arses, but in this
>> case there was someone doing there best in good faith to do everything
>> right by the community and they were treated appallingly by senior
>> members of our community for no good reason and thats just not on.
> 
> I agree that the shushing for raster and Stephen is deserved.
> 
> What I not agree with is the painting of William as an innocent victim 
> here. He had the same impact on this exploding situation.
> 
> I never had contact with him before (neither IRC nor mail) besides this 
> thread and I see tons on snide remarks from his side. Almost in every 
> mail. So, Simon, if you are going to shush people, William should also 
> be part of it.
> 

Well i'm not saying he is perfect, but I didn't see anything completely
unreasonable from my communication with him (I suspect that other
developers may have). he obviously had some role in this but I expect a
higher standard from established members of the community having said
that snide remarks are almost never helpful and should be discouraged.

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