[vlc-devel] Game over

Frederic YHUEL fyhuel at viotech.net
Thu Apr 26 09:50:58 CEST 2012


2012/4/25 Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>:
>        Pierre,
>
> Le mercredi 25 avril 2012 21:47:57 Pierre Ynard, vous avez écrit :
>> > Thanks your persistent jerk behaviour, and the project inability to
>> > deal with it promptly,
>>
>> I'm sorry but this feud has been lasting for years, and you already had
>> taken action yesterday; given this and the lack of action in the past,
>> I don't understand why you make it sound like you expected something to
>> happen before an unspoken one-day deadline that now suddenly expired.
>
> There was plenty enough time to preemptively suspend him or whatever. Nothing
> happened and he went on with his accusations today. That was the one straw
> after the last straw for me.
>
> VLC was a free time hobby. That implies it had to be fun. Right now, it is
> everything except fun. If I were paid, I would suffer it, but I am not.
>
>> > VLC media player has just lost its largest, second oldest developer
>> > and forth most active forum member. The Linux port is now almost dead.
>> > All the expertise on the portability layer, audio output, network,
>> > etc. is now lost. Nobody will be triaging Ubuntu and Debian bugs.
>>
>> No please stay and give us a bit more time and a chance to deal with
>> this.
>

Yes, please stay. I've no idea what Videolan guys are planning, but
I'm sure there will find a fair solution.

-- 
Frédéric



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