Hi Kieran On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 06:31:30PM +0000, Kieran Kunhya wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jan 2024 at 21:47, Michael Niedermayer > wrote: > > > Hi Kieran > > > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 08:42:00PM +0000, Kieran Kunhya wrote: > > > On Sun, 28 Jan 2024, 20:37 Kieran Kunhya, wrote: > > > > > > > Both work fine really. For example iam not employed by FFlabs and the > > work > > > >> i did for them is just by sending invoices, while what i do qualifies > > > >> maintenance probably close to 100%. > > > >> > > > > > > > > Fflabs is a private company that can choose however it likes how to > > > > distribute its funds. STF/SPI/FFmpeg are not the same. > > > > > > > > Would you like every invoice you make to be on this mailing list and > > > > discussed in depth in public? And if that invoice was voted against by > > the > > > > GA what would you do? > > > > > > > > Kieran > > > > > > > > > > Remember the outcry about SDR that literally drove people away from the > > > project? Well imagine that for one of your invoices. > > > > Do you mean it would drive them away because of how much or how little i > > work for ? > > Or becuase of what i work for ? > > > > You refused to acknowledge the public outcry over SDR for months and pushed > patches the community clearly objected to (see andreas thread). 1. thats not true, SDR was not pushed to git master 2. there is a technical committee for disagreements, if there was a dissagreemnet but the technical committee was not contacted 3. I see how you try to move the argument from a ~ 200k ¤ grant that noone in their right mind would reject to arguing over some unpopular code. SDR does not fit within the STF framework so this doesnt even work even if we all tried together to make it work. Also everything needs to be approved by the community before STF can fund it so there are so many indepedant reasons why this i impossible [...] > You weren't willing to compromise last time > for your hobby, what makes you willing to compromise in that situation? This insult is unacceptable. I just a few days ago stated that i intend to implement SDR within what the community prefers or as a seperate fork. So thats completely the opposit of what i stated [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB Its not that you shouldnt use gotos but rather that you should write readable code and code with gotos often but not always is less readable