On 03/01/2020 05:42 AM, Phil Rhodes via ffmpeg-user wrote:
I think your intervention would have been more efficient if you had
chosen to make it in direct response to one of these rude behaviors.
I have tried to do this. I have been trying to do this for years. It doesn't
work; overtures intended to be helpful are almost always violently rejected.
Very few open source projects are particularly welcoming of any contribution
other than code and I think this is a huge indictment of not only ffmpeg, but
the wider world of open source.
For instance, in ffmpeg, for years the colour handling was wildly incorrect
simply because nobody on the project had the knowledge or experience to
implement it properly. They had the software engineering ability but not the
subject knowledge.
For another instance, one ffmpeg contributor, years ago, launched a polemic
against drop-frame timecode which he felt was untidy which did nothing more
than reveal just how appallingly ignorant some core contributors were and are
on the basic tenets of digital video. If he only knew!
I have twenty years' experience in the field. I offered free consultancy and
was rudely rejected. I made similar overtures to the Cinelerra video editor
project with much the same result.
Open source software is often so violently hostile to non-code contributions
that I'm surprised this conversation doesn't happen more frequently; this
problem is holding back open source in general.
Phil
I agree; 100% correct. Phil's experience parallels my experience exactly.
All open source projects to which I've attempted to volunteer treated me
with contempt. I've run hardware projects -- I'm a retired hardware
design engineer -- and I've hired software engineers, and I'm unsure how
many open source developers would make the cut.
Regards,
Mark.
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