"I had hoped for a long time that the fork situation would resolve and both sides somehow merging back into one team. All the Libav developers joining FFmpeg again. But even now as the last distributions are preparing to remove Libav, still theres no hint of that happening. Maybe even the opposite."
and
"Do friendly merges, and if you like do hostile merges.
Its all up to you now!"
That isn't "a ton of derogatory remarks".
libav is working to the same goal as ffmpeg. The split is due to idealism and politics, not due to the goal of the project. I'm not going to pick a side in this, as interpersonal relationships are impossible to accurately gauge from an external viewpoint.
I'm not sure if you have a personal stake in this argument, and I apologize, and sympathize if you do.
Best of luck in the future Mr Niedermayer. Thanks for all the work over the years.
The libav side have consistently refused to merge code from the ffmpeg side of the split, including security fixes, have written their own incompatible versions of any APIs the ffmpeg developers come up with, and been generally hostile, and he's the one that's had to deal with the mess for the past several years.
"Refused" ? In Libav any patch has to go through review, anything that had been put in review had been managed as any other patches by any other sources.
if everything that somebody from the libav side says here is automatically labelled bitterness and downvoted, maybe you can understand why some are indeed bitter.
I don't know if he's ever explicitly mentioned his "wrongdoings," but I do feel that he has changed for the better since the libav split. This is in terms of how he's interacted with people on the ffmpeg-devel mailing list, he's shown up consistently on IRC, and getting patches accepted aren't a royal pain as it was in the past. I don't know how real contributors/maintainers feel, but as a user and sometimes patch-submitter, I feel like things have gotten better.
posts like this one is why it went off the rails a long time ago. there is also the one where he suggested a libav dev should commit suicide and later labeled it as "Austrian humour"
Your team won, Michael stepped down. Of his own volition. What positive outcome could possibly be had by still spouting bitterness and negativity against him? Is it because he did not genuinely say "sorry" at some point? After reading [0] and [1], is it not possible to admit that maybe both sides have some genuine "sorries" to pass around? Now seems like the perfect opportunity to make a positive change for developers and users instead of venting frustrations that are only going to further polarize the current division.
(I'm not "automatically" labelling your posts as bitter. Almost all of yours in these comments objectively contain negative language, typically directed at Michael.)
(Keep in mind at least one of the Libav supported got questioned on his dayjob regarding "thievery" because of those lovely examples and the legends the fans kept propagating)
>If noone has time ill fix the memleak and commit and let the libav
cleanup monkeys clean the rest up for me.
Is the kind of inflammatory comment you are so up in arms over, I think you must have lived a very sheltered life. Especially considering this comment looks to have come shortly after the hostile split.
and if he never liked the leadership role as he claims, he was given ample opportunities to get rid of it.