Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Revert "Add FUNDING.json"

[Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>]

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On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 04:59:45PM +0200, Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:59:45 +0200
> From: Kieran Kunhya <kieran618@googlemail.com>
> To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Revert "Add FUNDING.json"
> 
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM Michael Niedermayer
> <michael@niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Derek
> >
> > so many different subjects you raise here, ill try to reply seperately
> > to keep it clean and terse
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 06:24:32AM +0100, Derek Buitenhuis wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Monday, June 23, 2025, Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
> > [...]
> > > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 09:20:56PM +0100, Derek Buitenhuis wrote:
> > > > > This was pushed with outstanding reservations,
> > > >
> > > > there where 2 comments in one mail but no objection
> > > >     The first was about SPI and taxes
> > > >     The second was about the domain owner of avcodec.org
> > >
> > >
> > > Neither of which were replied to before pushing.
> >
> > I can do usefull work or reply to things like above. I prefer to do usefull
> > work.
> >
> > Over the years one learns that with some people the value for the community
> > is higher to just ignore them
> > We have more than 2000 people on this list, and for 0.1-0.2% of them i
> > have found replying is consistently a huge net negative.
> > Others can reply. These questions arent written for others. So the discussions
> > are much nicer and shorter if others reply.
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Thank you for your kind words. So just to confirm if Derek asked
> directly who owns avcodec.org, you'd answer?

Information like this is available for people with a legitimate need to know.
Examples:
Admins who need to know it
A professional auditor doing an audit of our infrastructure.

If a "random" person wants to know it, thats suspect already.
More so if every single person asking about this Information where part
of the same concerted effort to bully/mob other developers.

Iam sure this is just a coincidence

So yeah, if you are concerned about security (which i do NOT doubt you are),
pay an audit. The auditor then has access to all this, can check it and you
never need to know any of the details.
Iam sure there are many things such a audit would find that we can improve.
but i dont think making domain owners names public is one of the
recommanditions that the audit would contain.

thx

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Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB

Rewriting code that is poorly written but fully understood is good.
Rewriting code that one doesnt understand is a sign that one is less smart
than the original author, trying to rewrite it will not make it better.

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