Jeff Spaleta, if you want some help doing this, let me know and I'll help you every way I can :) including talking to the ffmpeg people :)
Lucas do Amaral, Fedora Ambassador - Brazil -- 2008/6/20 Jeff Spaleta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Ricardo Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Personally, I think stopping ffmpeg development for 2, 3 or even 6 > > months to do a code restructuring is indeed worth it (the mozilla guys > > did it, and now we have Firefox thanks to them). Perhaps it would be > > nice to ask the ffmpeg devs again, who knows? It might just work - > > specially coming from the Fedora marketing team ;-) > > If you want to step up and help them change to be more compatible with > our policy, you are welcome to do that. But you sure as hell better > not walk into their process telling them what they do sucks. You MUST > approach the conversation without judgment or blame and you must do > what you can to show that you are serious about doing the hard work > necessary to help them restructure in a way that is compatible with > our policy so that our users can benefit from their work. > > We can not blame them for not caring about what we care about. > Everyone works on projects for their own reasons. If they don't care > about the issues of patent encumbrance or API stability, that does not > devalue the work they do. They simply have different interests. What > matters is if that their project structure is open enough to include > new people with new interests who are willing to work in good faith to > make ffmpeg easier to use and distribute. And we aren't going to find > that out if people want into their process telling them what they are > doing is wrong. It's not wrong, its just not what we need. So we need > people in our community who have the development skills, and a civil > tongue, to offer to help them make ffmpeg a better fit for our needs > in a way, for the greater benefit of all. > > > -jef > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > :::: CONTRIBUA COM O MEIO AMBIENTE. NÃO IMPRIMA ESTA MENSAGEM ::::: > > >
-- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
