On 3/1/20, Phil Rhodes via ffmpeg-user <[email protected]> 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. >
Why are you spreading FUD here? > Phil > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe". _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list [email protected] https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe".
