Luca Barbato wrote: > May I point you that ~10 people were the majority of what was FFmpeg, > thus 10 people were enough to demote democratically the so called Leader > and that guy got the name from Fabrice as his personal decision?
There was probably a reason for Fabrice to do that, and majority and democracy doesn't have much to do with it. It is more likely that 10 people are "right" than that 3 are, but a group of 10 is still quite small. I wouldn't mind reading about the backstory. Do you know of some good links beyond the two that were posted already? > I'm perfectly happy to develop my code as long I'm not dragged in the > mud with outlandish statement or people annoying the hell of me because > they want to force me to merge because would be so better. Users will never be satisfied. But I guess you agree that API compatibility will certainly avoid extra problems for users. > Well, you are talking to one of the two guys that spent about 3 months > behind the scenes trying to compose the situation before it ended with > the in theory normal demotion of a so-called Leader by democratic means. I don't think open source neccessarily is democracy, and of course a disagreement about something fairly fundamental such as that can be more than enough to cause a fork. > Sadly or luckily the whole thing ended with us (the majority) > having to give up the name and picking a different one. I think the name itself doesn't matter much (FWIW I think libav is a much better name) but API compatibility is a big deal, and all branches should really make an effort to stay compatible. //Peter
