On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:48 PM, <<a href="mailto:xiphmont@xiph.org">xiphmont@xiph.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:30 AM, JorSol <<a href="mailto:mailing@jorsol.com">mailing@jorsol.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Yes, I'm not in a fair position to comment, sorry if I misinterpreted the<br>
> things... but has far I know, Thusnelda *is* an experiment for improve the<br>
> encoder in the Theora trunk. Don't get me wrong I really have hopes in this.<br>
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</div>I didn't read this as an attack, rather as some frustration at having<br>
to wait to see good things :-)</blockquote><div><br>Hey... you understand me really well :-)<br><br>
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> I'm aware that Monty has been working consistently on Thunsnelda, but if you<br>
> see close, yesterday was the first commit in the month, almost a month after<br>
> the last commit that was only one in Feb.<br>
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</div>You assume it is the only thing I'm working on. As one of the very<br>
few full time or near-full-time Xiph folks, I split my attention many<br>
ways and it tends to be in chunks of a week or two. Thusnelda is back<br>
to being the current chunk (with some Ogg distractions).<br>
<br>
Also one of the large gaps was due to being out of net access for<br>
nearly a month (New Zealand == land of no internet but many sheep).<br>
Look at the size of that one commit-- it replaced a good third of the<br>
bloody encoder.</blockquote><div><br>That's seems fair... I know that this is no an easy task to accomplish for the simple reason that is a voluntary project and you don't eat with it, at least not at this point. I seel that your commit was substantial and that you are doing your best :-)<br>
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</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">>said that Monty is the only<br>
> one that has been working on Thusnelda, you are all excellent devs, why<br>
> Giles, Terriberry or anyone else is working on it?<br>
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</div>Ralph is still concerned with mainline. Derf is not currently<br>
available to work on the code although his contribution is substantial<br>
and informal (my Thusnelda work is substantially channeling Derf; I'm<br>
an audio guy, not a video guy).<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Ok... I understand, I hope that Derf can join at some point to accelerate the process :-)<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Fundraising will likely never reach the point where we can pay salaries.</blockquote><div><br>Well you have nothing to lose if you try it :-)<br>maybe not pay a year of salary... but two or tree months?<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Also, what we really need is not more engineers. We desperately need<br>
business management and technical documentation people more than<br>
anything. Throwing more engineers at Xiph will complictae the problem<br>
we have, which is all the high-powered engineers we have being<br>
constantly distracted by .Org housekeeping and low-level technical<br>
coordination.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I agree with you... but the thing is how to do it?<br><br><br clear="all">cheers,<br>-- <br>Jorge Solórzano<br><a href="http://www.jorsol.com">http://www.jorsol.com</a>