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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 &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>
    <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>
  </variablelist>
</chapter>