<chapter id="cha-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.openprojects.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>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 oru 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>