Re: Discussing defaults (Was: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in virtual/ffmpeg: ffmpeg-9.ebuild ChangeLog ffmpeg-0.10.2-r1.ebuild)

[Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>]

Luca Barbato wrote:
> > Users will never be satisfied. But I guess you agree that API
> > compatibility will certainly avoid extra problems for users.
> 
> It is not related to users,

I was trying to come back on topic. :)


> is related to me being called as swine a traitor and having death
> threats. *Slightly* less technical than discussing API.

That is of course not acceptable under any circumstance. I'm sorry to
hear that you had to deal with that. :(


> > 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.
> 
> The rules in Libav are quite well defined and decently enforced.
> 
> Again, if you have ~15 people and one is deemed misbehaving by more
> than 10, which is the fork?

The fork is always the younger group, but who is "right" and "wrong"
is another matter.


//Peter