[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Haihao Xiang for vaapi

[Eoff, Ullysses A]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of Soft Works
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2021 10:56 PM
> To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org>
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Haihao Xiang for vaapi
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of U. Artie
> > Eoff
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2021 5:08 AM
> > To: ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org
> > Cc: U. Artie Eoff <ullysses.a.eoff at intel.com>
> > Subject: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Haihao Xiang for vaapi
> >
> > Current listed maintainers for vaapi plugin are
> > not reponsive and/or currently active in the
> > ffmpeg community.  Thus, vaapi plugin patches
> > (and qsv plugin) have generally gone ignored or
> > lost in the ether for too long.
> >
> > Remove Gwenole Beauchesne from vaapi maintainer
> > who has not been active since 2016.
> >
> > Current alternative maintainer for vaapi is Mark
> > Thompson whom has not been active since
> > March/April 2021.
> >
> > Therefore, add Haihao Xiang to vaapi maintainer
> > who's primary role is FFmpeg development with a
> > focus on the vaapi and qsv plugins.  Haihao has
> > over a decade of media experience and many years
> > of FFmpeg development experience, amongst other
> > media frameworks.
> >
> > The additional patch for adding Haihao as qsv
> > plugin maintainer has been submitted previously:
> >
> > https://patchwork.ffmpeg.org/project/ffmpeg/patch/20210608141134.27448-1-
> > zhongli_dev at 126.com/
> >
> > This will help FFmpeg to continue to be the leading
> > multimedia framework by allowing these plugins to be
> > actively improved, enhanced, and maintained for existing
> > and future HW platforms.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: U. Artie Eoff <ullysses.a.eoff at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index dcac46003ecd..fddf065a3abb 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -274,8 +274,8 @@ Hardware acceleration:
> >    dxva2*                                Hendrik Leppkes, Laurent Aimar,
> > Steve Lhomme
> >    d3d11va*                              Steve Lhomme
> >    mediacodec*                           Matthieu Bouron, Aman Gupta
> > -  vaapi*                                Gwenole Beauchesne
> > -  vaapi_encode*                         Mark Thompson
> > +  vaapi*                                Haihao Xiang
> > +  vaapi_encode*                         Mark Thompson, Haihao Xiang
> >    vdpau*                                Philip Langdale, Carl Eugen Hoyos
> >    videotoolbox*                         Rick Kern, Aman Gupta
> >
> > --
> 
> Whatever it might count: This has my support. Haihao is the
> most suitable candidate from all who I've been working with on
> QSV issues (on and off-list) in the past two years.
> 
> The current situation is far from ideal. In other areas, commits are
> pushed timely and frequently, while there's hardly any progress made
> in the Intel area, despite the amount of developer resources they
> are providing.
> Even the most trivial and straightforward patches are lying around
> for months without action. It really shouldn't be like that.
> 
> @Artie - you might want to update the patch and also add him for QSV.
> 

@softworkz, thank you for your kind support.  There is already another
patch submitted to add Haihao for QSV... see link in my commit
message.  I have also just bumped that patch again.

We're looking forward to seeing some progress here 😉.

> Kind regards,
> softworkz
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