On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 15:53:04 +0200 Michael Niedermayer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all > > Ive been in FFmepg since 14 years and been the leader since 11 years > and i feel that iam not the best person for the leader position. > 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. > > The community is split and its very difficult to be the leader when > one is on one side of this split and the other tries everything to > push me out > > I hope my resignation will make it easier for the teams to find back > together and avoid a more complete split which would otherwise be > the result sooner or later as the trees diverge and merging all > improvments becomes too difficult for me to do. > > also before my resignation, i offer all maintainers who dont yet have, > direct write access as i likely will not comb through the ML anymore > or not as frequently to apply patches, please send me your public SSH > key if you are de facto maintaining or working on some part of FFmpeg > or are listed in MAINTAINERs. > > If people want to continue merges from libav, someone else will have > to do these. Indeed i fully admit the work and pressure caused by > the merges is a main reason for my resignation. > > FFmpeg belongs to the FFmpeg developers and the FFmpeg community! > > will i ever return ? ... i might ..., if theres a nice and friendly > environment, no hostile forks or at least none i have to interact with. > But i will certainly not return as leader, this is not really a role > i ever truly liked, more one i ended up with. > Especially as somehow "leader" is being interpreted by everyone as > "the guy who does all work noone else does, and takes all > responsibility noone else wants to take" > > am i still available for consulting jobs releated to FFmpeg? > yes, of course i cant gurantee it for the very distant future but > currently yes. And in the very distant future, its a maybe, so just > ask if theres something ... > > what about root, git admin roles, ...? > Well iam happy to pass them on to whoever the community chooses and > trusts. But please be very carefull who you choose! > until someone else is choosen i can continue doing the basic things > like security updates and opening git accounts, aka theres no urgency > in choosing someone, rather please choose wise than quick. > > what about GSoC? I agreed to mentor and admin that and i will of > course finish that for this summer. I may or may not be available > in future FFmpeg GSoCs. > > If you now think "ohh god what should i do, michael resigned" > very simple, FFmpeg is yours, that is everyones. try your best to > make FFmpeg be the best. > Post patches, review patches, apply patches, discuss code and design. > Report bugs, bisect, debug and fix bugs, add features, help users. > Do friendly merges, and if you like do hostile merges. > Its all up to you now! > > > PS: To push a merge, i think this wasnt documented, you need to > add a "Merged-by:" to the commit message, thats the only check, i have > no special premissions or anything to push merges. > > PS2: Be carefull about who will be in charge of key infrastructure! > and also where power moves when thouse in charge then resign. > > PS3: I would suggest a new "leader" if there was a clear pick, a year > or 2 ago i would have suggested stefano or clement but they are > not so active currently. Maybe a good candidate will appear in > the future or stefano & ubitux will become more active again > in which case i would suggest one of them as leader if the > community wants to have a leader and they agree. > > Thanks to everyone, for everything they did and will do in the future > for FFmpeg and the community ! > I didn't always agree with your way of maintaining FFmpeg, but the work you did was impressive. I also hope that this will eventually lead to FFmpeg and Libav being one project again. And I hope that this is not the end of you as FFmpeg contributor. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
