[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] doc/developer: remove merge request method of contributing

Lou Logan lou at lrcd.com
Thu Apr 5 21:17:30 EEST 2018


This seems to confuse Github users into thinking that we may accept pull
requests. We do not accept pull requests.

Sending patches to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list is our preferred method
for users to contribute code.

Signed-off-by: Lou Logan <lou at lrcd.com>
---
 doc/developer.texi | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/developer.texi b/doc/developer.texi
index 0fc9c3f21c..a0eeefe242 100644
--- a/doc/developer.texi
+++ b/doc/developer.texi
@@ -30,13 +30,11 @@ consult @url{https://ffmpeg.org/legal.html}.
 
 @chapter Contributing
 
-There are 3 ways by which code gets into FFmpeg.
+There are 2 ways by which code gets into FFmpeg:
 @itemize @bullet
- at item Submitting patches to the main developer mailing list.
+ at item Submitting patches to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list.
       See @ref{Submitting patches} for details.
 @item Directly committing changes to the main tree.
- at item Committing changes to a git clone, for example on github.com or
-      gitorious.org. And asking us to merge these changes.
 @end itemize
 
 Whichever way, changes should be reviewed by the maintainer of the code
-- 
2.16.3



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