[Red5] Making MP3 player, want to die

[Dominick Accattato]

Great response Jeff.  Left me with that good oss feeling ;).  So let's  
keep going and build some documentation!!

On Mar 13, 2008, at 7:05 PM, Jeff Cook wrote:

> I'm an open-source guy myself ... I've never maintained a project, but
> I have contributed, I use Linux and GNOME and Openbox and Amarok and
> almost everything I do, even on Windows, is centered around
> open-source software. I understand that the developers of Red5 have
> volunteered thousands of hours and I am grateful for it. Red5 _is_ an
> extremely impressive piece of software; I never said it sucks, said it
> seemed less awful that ActionScript (admittedly not a very flattering
> way to put things, and I feel good about Red5 in actuality; allowed my
> frustrations to run away with me, for which I apologize), and
> continued to say that the documentation was the issue. I meant no
> offense and I am very appreciative of the sacrifice. I do sincerely
> apologize for any offense I caused, it was not intentional and my post
> was made in haste, which was wrong. Dominick is correct in pointing
> out that this software is only at 0.7, and I apologize for my sense of
> entitlement and lack of understanding, I understand that it's ugly. :
> (
>
> That said, I still maintain that it's excessively difficult for
> newbies to get into Red5 due to lack of good documentation. I will be
> happy to contribute a good introductory tutorial once I figure things
> out.
>
> mogo, thanks for the code sample. : )
>
> And everyone else, thank you for helping and responding. : )
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Tyler Kocheran  
> <rfkrocktk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Agreed. I know close to nothing of Red5 (or Java) and I'm barely  
>> getting my
>> feet wet at this point with it, but you just don't complain as such  
>> to these
>> open-source guys. It's like going to someone's birthday party and  
>> telling
>> them that your life is permanently ruined by how badly their party  
>> sucked.
>> Thousands of hours, man... thousands of hours. Oh, and don't  
>> complain about
>> how you hate Flash and Actionscript on a Flash Open Source Server  
>> forum,
>> it's just like going to PHP.net and complaining about how you hate  
>> PHP, it
>> gets nothing done. Much props to the guys that sacrificed so much  
>> time on
>> making this server, though I don't completely understand how to use  
>> it YET.
>>
>> - TK
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Dominick Accattato <daccattato at gmail.com 
>> >
>> wrote:
>>> I can understand frustration as well, however the software is only  
>>> at
>>> v0.7.  It's your choice to use it and feel free to extend it, but
>>> don't come on the list and tell us that "Actionscript sucks and that
>>> Red5 is less awful".  It's just bad taste and we as open source
>>> developers spent thousands of hours building this tool.  Many users
>>> are quite happy that the tool exists and I would think that many on
>>> this list we're offended with your remarks.  I know I was.
>>>
>>
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