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I love VLC and use it daily, literally daily. I often donate to open source projects and VLC is one of those. One gripe though is that VLC gives a such a good

I love VLC and use it daily, literally daily. I often donate to open source projects and VLC is one of those. One gripe though is that VLC gives a such a good impression that you get very disappointed when basic things like scanning your media library don't work. It catches you by surprise because the rest of VLC is so polished. And for example the fact that there was no sleep timer until recently. You'd think that an open source project so widely used would find plenty of help to implement such basic features.

FrojoS 7y ago
From the interview: "For a patch to get accepted, it needs to be maintainable as well as useful [...] Which means that we put a lot of emphasis on quality. So, with any code we get sent, we need to make sure that we can still maintain it in 6 months, 1 year, or 2 years… And that’s why we have a lot of features in VLC that some consider completely useless and why we don’t have others that some people think are important. It’s not because we’re stupid, it’s just that the code needs to be clean—if it’s not, you don’t get in." (emphasis mine)