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-<chapter id="chapter-quotes">
- <title>Quotes from the Developers</title>
- <para>
- As well as being a cool piece of software,
- <application>GStreamer</application> is a lively project, with
- developers from around the globe very actively contributing.
- We often hang out on the #gstreamer IRC channel on
- irc.freenode.net: the following are a selection of amusing<footnote>
- <para>No guarantee of sense of humour compatibility is given.</para>
- </footnote> quotes from our conversations.
- </para>
-
- <variablelist>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>14 Oct 2004</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>* zaheerm</emphasis>
-wonders how he can break gstreamer today :)
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>ensonic</emphasis>:
-zaheerm, spider is always a good starting point
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>14 Jun 2004</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>teuf</emphasis>: ok, things work much better when I don't write incredibly stupid and buggy code
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>thaytan</emphasis>: I find that too
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>23 Nov 2003</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Uraeus</emphasis>: ah yes, the sleeping part, my mind
- is not multitasking so I was still thinking about exercise
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>dolphy</emphasis>: Uraeus: your mind is multitasking
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>dolphy</emphasis>: Uraeus: you just miss low latency patches
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>14 Sep 2002</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- --- <emphasis>wingo-party</emphasis> is now known as
- <emphasis>wingo</emphasis>
- </para>
- <para>
- * <emphasis>wingo</emphasis> holds head
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>16 Feb 2001</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
- I shipped a few commerical products to >40000 people now but
- GStreamer is way more exciting...
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>16 Feb 2001</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- *
- <emphasis>tool-man</emphasis>
- is a gstreamer groupie
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>14 Jan 2001</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
- did you run ldconfig? maybe it talks to init?
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
- not sure, don't think so...
- I did run gstreamer-register though :-)
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
- ah, that did it then ;-)
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
- right
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
- probably not, but in case GStreamer starts turning into an OS, someone please let me know?
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>9 Jan 2001</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
- me tar, you rpm?
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
- hehe, forgot "zan"
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
- ?
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
- me tar"zan", you ...
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>7 Jan 2001</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
- that means probably building an agreggating, cache-massaging
- queue to shove N buffers across all at once, forcing cache
- transfer.
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
- never done that before...
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
- nope, but it's easy to do in gstreamer <g>
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
- sure, I need to rewrite cp with gstreamer too, someday :-)
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>7 Jan 2001</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
- GStreamer; always at least one developer is awake...
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>5/6 Jan 2001</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
- we need to cut down the time to create an mp3 player down to
- seconds...
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>richardb:</emphasis>
- :)
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
- I'm wanting to something more interesting soon, I did the "draw an mp3
- player in 15sec" back in October '99.
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
- by the time Omega gets his hands on the editor, you'll see a
- complete audio mixer in the editor :-)
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>richardb:</emphasis>
- Well, it clearly has the potential...
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
- Working on it... ;-)
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>28 Dec 2000</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>MPAA:</emphasis>
- We will sue you now, you have violated our IP rights!
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
- hehehe
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>MPAA:</emphasis>
- How dare you laugh at us? We have lawyers! We have Congressmen! We have <emphasis>LARS</emphasis>!
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
- I'm so sorry your honor
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>MPAA:</emphasis>
- Hrumph.
- </para>
- <para>
- *
- <emphasis>wtay</emphasis>
- bows before thy
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>4 Jun 2001</term>
- <listitem>
- <para><emphasis>taaz:</emphasis> you witchdoctors and your voodoo mpeg2 black magic... </para>
- <para><emphasis>omega_:</emphasis> um. I count three, no four different cults there <g> </para>
- <para><emphasis>ajmitch:</emphasis> hehe </para>
- <para><emphasis>omega_:</emphasis> witchdoctors, voodoo, black magic, </para>
- <para><emphasis>omega_:</emphasis> and mpeg </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-</chapter>