FFmpeg package in Debian/Ubuntu

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Hi!

Fabian Greffrath <fabian <at> greffrath.com> writes:

> thanks for presenting your - doubtless biased, but however - point of 
> view.

Is this purely what you expect from Michael, or did you find anything in his
mail that made you believe it was written in a biased way?
(I ask because I was impressed how unbiased he wrote the message - I wouldn't
have been able to after what has happened.)

> Am 11.10.2011 02:24, schrieb Michael Niedermayer:
> > In terms of features:
> 
> As far as I know, as an outsider, the reasons for the work were not 

(I am assuming you did not mean "work".)

> technical ones.

This is of course true - the reason for the failed takeover and subsequent fork
was a personal vendetta against the main contributor and maintainer of FFmpeg -
but the presented reasons were predominantly technical ones.
And while for me, the non-technical reasons are much more important than
security issues, bug fixes and features, I would have expected that here
technical reasons would outweigh the non-technical ones.

> Has the situation relaxed a bit in this regard?

I am not sure how this can be answered - so far, I have not seen a single public
apology from the "new team".

Carl Eugen
FFmpeg developer