1 <chapter id="chapter-quotes">
2 <title>Quotes from the Developers</title>
4 As well as being a cool piece of software,
5 <application>GStreamer</application> is a lively project, with
6 developers from around the globe very actively contributing.
7 We often hang out on the #gstreamer IRC channel on
8 irc.freenode.net: the following are a selection of amusing<footnote>
9 <para>No guarantee of sense of humour compatibility is given.</para>
10 </footnote> quotes from our conversations.
16 <term>6 Mar 2006</term>
19 When I opened my eyes I was in a court room. There were masters McIlroy and
20 Thompson sitting in the jury and master Kernighan too. There were the GStreamer
21 developers standing in the defendant's place, accused of violating several laws
22 of Unix philosophy and customer lock-down via running on a proprietary
23 pipeline, different from that of the Unix systems. I heard Eric Raymond
24 whispering "got to add this case to my book.
26 <para><emphasis>behdad's blog</emphasis></para>
31 <term>22 May 2007</term>
33 <para><emphasis><__tim></emphasis>
34 Uraeus: amusing, isn't it?
36 <para><emphasis><Uraeus></emphasis>
37 __tim: I wrote that :)
39 <para><emphasis><__tim></emphasis>
40 Uraeus: of course you did; your refusal to surrender to the oppressive regime
41 of the third-person-singular-rule is so unique in its persistence that it's
49 <term>12 Sep 2005</term>
51 <para><emphasis><wingo></emphasis>
52 we just need to get rid of that mmap stuff
54 <para><emphasis><wingo></emphasis>
55 i think gnomevfssrc is faster for files even
57 <para><emphasis><BBB></emphasis>
60 <para><emphasis><BBB></emphasis>
63 <para><emphasis><wingo></emphasis>
70 <term>23 Jun 2005</term>
73 <para><emphasis>* wingo</emphasis> back</para>
74 <para><emphasis>* thomasvs</emphasis> back</para>
75 <para>--- You are now known as everybody</para>
76 <para><emphasis>* everybody</emphasis> back back</para>
77 <para><emphasis><everybody></emphasis> now break it down</para>
78 <para>--- You are now known as thomasvs</para>
79 <para><emphasis>* bilboed</emphasis> back</para>
80 <para>--- bilboed is now known as john-sebastian</para>
81 <para><emphasis>* john-sebastian</emphasis> bach</para>
82 <para>--- john-sebastian is now known as bilboed</para>
83 <para>--- You are now known as scratch_my</para>
84 <para><emphasis>* scratch_my</emphasis> back</para>
85 <para>--- bilboed is now known as Illbe</para>
86 <para>--- You are now known as thomasvs</para>
87 <para><emphasis>* Illbe</emphasis> back</para>
88 <para>--- Illbe is now known as bilboed</para>
93 <term>20 Apr 2005</term>
96 <emphasis>thomas</emphasis>:
97 jrb, somehow his screenshotsrc grabs whatever X is showing and makes it
98 available as a stream of frames
101 <emphasis>jrb</emphasis>:
102 thomas: so, is the point that the screenshooter takes a video?
103 but won't the dialog be in the video? oh, nevermind. I'll just send mail...
106 <emphasis>thomas</emphasis>:
107 jrb, well, it would shoot first and ask questions later
113 <term>2 Nov 2004</term>
116 <emphasis>zaheerm</emphasis>:
117 wtay: unfair u fixed the bug i was using as a feature!
123 <term>14 Oct 2004</term>
126 <emphasis>* zaheerm</emphasis>
127 wonders how he can break gstreamer today :)
130 <emphasis>ensonic</emphasis>:
131 zaheerm, spider is always a good starting point
137 <term>14 Jun 2004</term>
140 <emphasis>teuf</emphasis>: ok, things work much better when I don't write incredibly stupid and buggy code
143 <emphasis>thaytan</emphasis>: I find that too
148 <term>23 Nov 2003</term>
151 <emphasis>Uraeus</emphasis>: ah yes, the sleeping part, my mind
152 is not multitasking so I was still thinking about exercise
155 <emphasis>dolphy</emphasis>: Uraeus: your mind is multitasking
158 <emphasis>dolphy</emphasis>: Uraeus: you just miss low latency patches
164 <term>14 Sep 2002</term>
167 --- <emphasis>wingo-party</emphasis> is now known as
168 <emphasis>wingo</emphasis>
171 * <emphasis>wingo</emphasis> holds head
177 <term>4 Jun 2001</term>
179 <para><emphasis>taaz:</emphasis> you witchdoctors and your voodoo mpeg2 black magic... </para>
180 <para><emphasis>omega_:</emphasis> um. I count three, no four different cults there <g> </para>
181 <para><emphasis>ajmitch:</emphasis> hehe </para>
182 <para><emphasis>omega_:</emphasis> witchdoctors, voodoo, black magic, </para>
183 <para><emphasis>omega_:</emphasis> and mpeg </para>
188 <term>16 Feb 2001</term>
191 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
192 I shipped a few commerical products to >40000 people now but
193 GStreamer is way more exciting...
198 <term>16 Feb 2001</term>
202 <emphasis>tool-man</emphasis>
203 is a gstreamer groupie
208 <term>14 Jan 2001</term>
211 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
212 did you run ldconfig? maybe it talks to init?
215 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
216 not sure, don't think so...
217 I did run gstreamer-register though :-)
220 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
221 ah, that did it then ;-)
224 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
228 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
229 probably not, but in case GStreamer starts turning into an OS, someone please let me know?
234 <term>9 Jan 2001</term>
237 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
241 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
242 hehe, forgot "zan"
245 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
249 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
250 me tar"zan", you ...
255 <term>7 Jan 2001</term>
258 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
259 that means probably building an agreggating, cache-massaging
260 queue to shove N buffers across all at once, forcing cache
264 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
265 never done that before...
268 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
269 nope, but it's easy to do in gstreamer <g>
272 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
273 sure, I need to rewrite cp with gstreamer too, someday :-)
278 <term>7 Jan 2001</term>
281 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
282 GStreamer; always at least one developer is awake...
287 <term>5/6 Jan 2001</term>
290 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
291 we need to cut down the time to create an mp3 player down to
295 <emphasis>richardb:</emphasis>
299 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
300 I'm wanting to something more interesting soon, I did the "draw an mp3
301 player in 15sec" back in October '99.
304 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
305 by the time Omega gets his hands on the editor, you'll see a
306 complete audio mixer in the editor :-)
309 <emphasis>richardb:</emphasis>
310 Well, it clearly has the potential...
313 <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
319 <term>28 Dec 2000</term>
322 <emphasis>MPAA:</emphasis>
323 We will sue you now, you have violated our IP rights!
326 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
330 <emphasis>MPAA:</emphasis>
331 How dare you laugh at us? We have lawyers! We have Congressmen! We have <emphasis>LARS</emphasis>!
334 <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
335 I'm so sorry your honor
338 <emphasis>MPAA:</emphasis>
343 <emphasis>wtay</emphasis>