On 11/02/13 22:33, Peter Stuge wrote: > Luca Barbato wrote: >> May I point you that ~10 people were the majority of what was FFmpeg, >> thus 10 people were enough to demote democratically the so called Leader >> and that guy got the name from Fabrice as his personal decision? > > There was probably a reason for Fabrice to do that, and majority and > democracy doesn't have much to do with it. It is more likely that 10 > people are "right" than that 3 are, but a group of 10 is still quite > small. I wouldn't mind reading about the backstory. Do you know of > some good links beyond the two that were posted already?
The reason behind Fabrice actions is probably the same behind me trying for 3 months to not having to go the way it went. I got to change my mind since I was involved, Fabrice hadn't been since ages and he is doing something totally different nowadays. > Users will never be satisfied. But I guess you agree that API > compatibility will certainly avoid extra problems for users. It is not related to users, is related to me being called as swine a traitor and having death threats. *Slightly* less technical than discussing API. > I don't think open source neccessarily is democracy, and of course a > disagreement about something fairly fundamental such as that can > be more than enough to cause a fork. The rules in Libav are quite well defined and decently enforced. Again, if you have ~15 people and one is deemed misbehaving by more than 10, which is the fork? lu
