On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 5:09 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Dnia 2015-02-04, o godz. 11:04:57 > "Jason A. Donenfeld" <zx...@gentoo.org> napisał(a): > >> I'd like to insert, early on in this thread, that we must leave personal >> biases and associations *out* of this discussion, and instead focus on >> technical merits and analyses only. Thus, I would *strongly encourage* that >> authors of libav and ffmpeg will *refrain from joining this discussion* in >> order to keep unnecessary biases out, which perhaps the sole exception of >> sending stray commit sha1s along if needed. I believe previous Gentoo >> policy to have been ruled by this non-technical aegis. > > I disagree. The authors/maintainers of both have the most to say here > since they actually may know *something* rather than the FUD that's > been going around like forever. >
++ Those with the greatest stake in a decision are often the ones who have the most information to provide. That does of course include a risk of bias, but you don't get the best decision possible by having a conversation limited to people who have never heard of ffmpeg or libav. :) -- Rich
