[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] News: Removal of libndi

Ali KIZIL alikizil at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 01:27:26 EET 2019


Dennis Mungai <dmngaie at gmail.com>, 20 Mar 2019 Çar, 23:20 tarihinde şunu
yazdı:

> On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 at 23:02, Marton Balint <cus at passwd.hu> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, at 20:52, Marton Balint wrote:
> > >> On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, at 19:34, Marton Balint wrote:
> > >> >> As I described in similar threads before, whether or not the
> project
> > want
> > >> >> closed source support for NDI is a subjective issue, please start a
> > vote
> > >> >> about the removal of libndi if you want to seek this through.
> > >> >
> > >> > The removal of libndi is actually done and committed.
> > >>
> > >> That is just sad an unfair.
> > >
> > > Sad, maybe.
> > > Unfair, I disagree. If NDI wants to be in, they know what to do.
> >
> > It is unfair towards the people who expressied disapproval, yet this
> > change was committed without neither vote nor consensus.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Marton
> >
> >
> >
> At the very best, the lack of consensus on this  implies vindictive intent.
> Is there something that the FFmpeg developers (see below) have against
> Newtek, as a company?
> Clearly, they took down the offending FFmpeg build:
> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/7589?cversion=0&cnum_hist=10
>
> We've seen other violations, such as this one by Amazon:
> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/7214 that were handled in a much more
> graceful manner.
>
> The primary agitator here seems to be kierank:
> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/7589?cversion=0&cnum_hist=10#comment:5
>
> What undisclosed history do you have with Newtek (see the reference to
> "Andrew") above that isn't disclosed above?
> Secondly, you're quite influential in the broadcast industry:
> https://www.obe.tv/author/obe/
>
> There's an aura of hostility around this commit, and whatever that is seems
> to have spilled over into this.
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The way of removal is not nice. There were an expectation to have a voting
for removal at the previous ML chain.
It feels the feeling of the patch is committed without any notice.
Sad, for the users who follow git-master and get notice for removal after
the commit.


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