https://ffmpeg.org/developer.html#Code-of-conduct


On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:02 PM, Andrew Williams <a...@andywilliams.me> wrote:
> Hi Team, Friends and Community,
>
> Can we please take a breath, think about how we would like to be thought of
> and consider this when we fire out emails to this list. We are a community,
> a diverse community at that, and I love it - there is something for
> everyone independent of interest, background or experience level.
>
> Looking at this email thread I am worried. Not for any particular message
> but because of the general inclination to forget that, as a community, we
> are all looking to progress the libraries, APIs and applications that
> encapsulate our understanding of what a great environment can be. Can we
> all please step back for a moment and see the good intention or reasoning
> behind the communications rather than what seems to be the reverse.
>
> Words like ownership, blame, fault and rights do not befit a community that
> has developed for so long as ours to embrace contribution from so many
> angles. I for one want to feel that we are, without exception,
> communicating in a way that we think is an example of how we would like
> others to consider approaching ourselves. Exclusive rights do not exist -
> everything we do is collaborative and at times we must resolve conflicts
> and merge multiple streams of development - that is life and it's a great
> thing to progress and deliver meaningful products for a wide community.
>
> I understand that many of these messages come from personal passion or from
> deep understanding of what we want to do - but as these are largely
> internal factors we must strive to understand both to progress forward. Can
> we please do more to understand each other as we discuss where
> understanding may be lacking or assumptions are not accurate?
>
> Imaginging for a moment if I were a completely new comer to this community
> and I saw such a discussion I would certainly be disheartened and may fail
> to get far enough to see the fantastic tech and possibilities that EFL
> should be bringing to the world.
>
> Thanks for taking the time to read, I appreciate it and hope that some
> reflection could help us to better build on the work of those both internal
> and external to the core project.
>
> Looking forward to Malta - a beer is always great for grounding
> conversation :)
> Andy
>
> On Mon, 15 May 2017 at 20:14 William L. Thomson Jr. <wlt...@o-sinc.com>
> wrote:
>
>> At this point in time. I have no interest of gaining access to
>> git.e.org repositories. I will continue any and all EFL application
>> development outside.
>>
>> I will consider my work going forward on ecrire to be a fork. I may
>> rename it and other things. I really haven't the time for the
>> mistreatment or the back and forth.
>>
>> If this is how new contributors are treated. It really explains why so
>> few things are in EFL. I am questioning how crazy I am to stay and not
>> run from this community. Though I will not hold all responsible for the
>> actions of the main person. I do not need to subject myself to such.
>>
>> Sadly I can see that leadership has already trickled down into some. It
>> is really bad all around. That people who work for Samsung conduct
>> themselves that way in public....
>>
>> On Mon, 15 May 2017 12:44:34 -0400
>> "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, 15 May 2017 16:28:30 +0000
>> > Andrew Williams <a...@andywilliams.me> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi William,
>> > >
>> > > I'm glad that is now resolved, thanks for figuring it out.
>> >
>> > Sure, I was already working on it when all the discussion came up.
>> > Which is why I commented on others committing. Does not make sense for
>> > more than one to work on same problem without discussion or
>> > coordination.
>> >
>> > > Back to the main topic of the thread - is your intention to get this
>> > > merged back up to master on git.e.org? I think that will affect the
>> > > coding style etc expectations and so forth, so I was interested in
>> > > the overall plan :)
>> >
>> > Merging back into the old repo on git.e.org was the intention. I
>> > believe I am following most if not all coding styles etc. Though maybe
>> > some places that could use some correction. The code is at least as
>> > good as what is in that old repo.
>> >
>> > How things proceed is up to others. I am continuing on with my
>> > development effort. It is pretty moot to me. For now could look to
>> > pull my changes into that repo and do that automated daily, etc.
>> >
>> > Beyond that not sure. Still concerned with working in public repos if
>> > people will just commit without any coordination or discussion with
>> > others. Otherwise I have no issue with my effort being pulled back
>> > into main repo. As for any direct commit access, that is rather moot
>> > for me.
>> >
>> > That is more if you all want the development to be official or third
>> > party effort to develop ecrire.  It is up to you all to decide. My
>> > only thoughts are, if my work is being merged back into ecrire
>> > git.e.org repo and I do not have direct commit access. I would not
>> > want others working in that repo. I will not be pulling just pushing
>> > to git.e.org for any syncing. Just something to keep in mind.
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> William L. Thomson Jr.
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