gstreamer/docs/manual/appendix-quotes.xml

<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>12 Sep 2005</term>
      <listitem>
<para><emphasis>&lt;wingo&gt;</emphasis>
we just need to get rid of that mmap stuff
</para>
<para><emphasis>&lt;wingo&gt;</emphasis>
i think gnomevfssrc is faster for files even
</para>
<para><emphasis>&lt;BBB&gt;</emphasis>
wingo, no
</para>
<para><emphasis>&lt;BBB&gt;</emphasis>
and no
</para>
<para><emphasis>&lt;wingo&gt;</emphasis>
good points ronald
</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>23 Jun 2005</term>
      <listitem>

<para><emphasis>* wingo</emphasis> back</para>
<para><emphasis>* thomasvs</emphasis> back</para>
<para>--- You are now known as everybody</para>
<para><emphasis>* everybody</emphasis> back back</para>
<para><emphasis>&lt;everybody&gt;</emphasis> now break it down</para>
<para>--- You are now known as thomasvs</para>
<para><emphasis>* bilboed</emphasis> back</para>
<para>--- bilboed is now known as john-sebastian</para>
<para><emphasis>* john-sebastian</emphasis> bach</para>
<para>--- john-sebastian is now known as bilboed</para>
<para>--- You are now known as scratch_my</para>
<para><emphasis>* scratch_my</emphasis> back</para>
<para>--- bilboed is now known as Illbe</para>
<para>--- You are now known as thomasvs</para>
<para><emphasis>* Illbe</emphasis> back</para>
<para>--- Illbe is now known as bilboed</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>20 Apr 2005</term>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <emphasis>thomas</emphasis>:
jrb, somehow his screenshotsrc grabs whatever X is showing and makes it
available as a stream of frames
	</para>
	<para>
	  <emphasis>jrb</emphasis>:
thomas: so, is the point that the screenshooter takes a video?
but won't the dialog be in the video?  oh, nevermind.  I'll just send mail...
	</para>
	<para>
          <emphasis>thomas</emphasis>:
jrb, well, it would shoot first and ask questions later
	</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>



    <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>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 &lt;g&gt; </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>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>16 Feb 2001</term>
      <listitem>
        <para>
        <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
        I shipped a few commerical products to &gt;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 &quot;zan&quot;
        </para>
        <para>
        <emphasis>Omega:</emphasis>
        ?
        </para>
        <para>
        <emphasis>wtay:</emphasis>
        me tar&quot;zan&quot;, 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 &lt;g&gt;
        </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>

  </variablelist>
</chapter>