[vlc-devel] 0.9.2 SAP

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

On 24 sep 2008, at 14:36, Pierre d'Herbemont wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 1:05 PM, George Bray <georgebray at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <rem at videolan.org 
>> >
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> It's been available for
>>> testing for at least nineteen months now. Nobody ever complained  
>>> until
>>> yesterday. Sorry, that's just too late.
>>
>> Really?  I usually react when I see your test1, testX versions but  
>> looking
>> at the list I don't think you followed this tradition with 0.9.2.   
>> If you
>> build test versions (and invite testing in forums outside the SVN  
>> list) then
>> you'll probably get more people testing them.
>
> We had -rcX for 0.9.2, we had even 0.9.0-testX, 0.9.0 and 0.9.1 :) We
> probably didn't advertise these enough though.
>
>> Your attitude is very disappointing.  I hope you reconsider.  Your  
>> Hitler
>> management style does not match the good will that the helpful,  
>> friendly VLC
>> contributors have generated over many years.
>
> I guess it would not hurt to be able to read those SAP, at least via
> an option, and deprecate its usage gently. The only requirement would
> be not to be too invasive in the patch you'll make.

If people send some examples, I'm sure we could try and improve it a  
bit.

DJ