[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] doc: clarify development rules

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2017-02-25 19:35 GMT+01:00 Marton Balint <cus at passwd.hu>:

> Instead of this, I'd prefer all patches on the ML.

This would mean we changed from a policy that we successful
applied for over a decade to a policy of which we - to the best
of my knowledge - know that it does not work well.

> Exceptions can be OKish
> (e.g. libav merges, which are hard as they are, or very trivial fixes), but
> I definitely would not make unreviewed pushes an encouraged and written
> policy.

I was under the impression that this - luckily - already was
written policy.

> If this gets pushed, I am inclined to clean up the MAINTAINERS file and
> remove everybody who is no longer "active"

While a cleanup is of course ok, please note that there MAINTAINERS
who are willing to maintain but had no reason to do so for longer than
six months.

Carl Eugen