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

[Xiang, Haihao]

On Wed, 2021-12-15 at 15:32 +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 10:31:40PM +0000, Soft Works wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of Michael
> > > Niedermayer
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2021 10:40 PM
> > > To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org>
> > > Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Haihao Xiang for
> > > vaapi
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 12:16:16PM -0800, Philip Langdale wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 16:39:40 +0000
> > > > "Eoff, Ullysses A" <ullysses.a.eoff at intel.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > I have not seen any objections.
> > > > > I just added Mark to CC using their email found on this ML.
> > > > > Unfortunately, we don't have current email contact for
> > > > > Gwenole (whom has not worked on ffmpeg for ~6 years).
> > > > > Who else can make the approval, aside from the inactive people
> > > > > previously listed?
> > > > 
> > > > Are people reluctant to approve?
> > > 
> > > I dont think so, iam just extra carefull as someone on IRC noticed that
> > > "everyone and their grandmother who's worked for intel's got push access"
> > > 
> > > There where also some complaints about code quality/cleanlyness
> > > toward intels contributions
> > 
> > That's true. There are differences, and my expressed support is 
> > specifically tied to the person, not about having just "somebody".
> > 
> > I have my reservations about too early adoption of oneVPL and I think
> > the patchset "Cleanup QSV Filters.." is doing too many things at once,
> > but well - being a maintainer still doesn't mean that one could merge
> > anything without consent.
> > 
> > But the current situation, like having two or three people working full-time
> > on the subject being depending on somebody who isn't following progress
> > and unable assess, evaluate and test proposed changes is quite awkward.
> 
> yes
> 
> 
> > 
> > > So i just wanted to make sure there are no objections (iam not conciously
> > > aware of any objections to these MAINTAINER additions ATM)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > I'll give it my approval to have on
> > > > the record. If the old maintainers want to emerge from the woodwork and
> > > > object after the fact, they are welcome to do so, but we can't just sit
> > > > around indefinitely. 
> > 
> > I'm actually wondering, whether registered maintainers that do not 
> > respond anymore to contributions for a certain amount of time,
> > shouldn't be unregistered automatically at some point?
> 
> If they never react they should be removed when a new volunteer is added.
> they should be informed about that when possible though.
> Also when there is noone else, then listing the last maintainer even if
> (s)he is mostly inactive still can make sense as it gives at least some point
> of contact 

Thanks all of you for your kink support. I'm glad to maintain vaapi plugin, 
will offer efforts to improve / enhance vaapi plugins and make it more useful to
vaapi user. I'd appreciate it if someone could make the approval and apply this
patch.

Thanks
Haihao