[FFmpeg-devel] [FFmpeg-cvslog] doc/filters: clarify behaviour of weights in amix

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 12:46 PM Gyan Doshi <ffmpeg at gyani.pro> wrote:
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> On 2022-08-09 04:00 pm, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 5:36 PM Gyan Doshi <ffmpeg at gyani.pro> wrote:
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> >> On 2022-08-09 02:57 pm, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> >>> Quoting Gyan Doshi (2022-08-09 11:22:39)
> >>>> I am a docs maintainer so I push these directly.
> >>> All patches should go through the mailing list, so other people get the
> >>> opportunity to comment on them.
> >> I do that for more extensive changes.
> >>
> >> As the guidelines say,
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> >> "Send your changes as patches to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list
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> > and
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> > if
> >> the code maintainers say OK, you may commit. This does not apply to
> >> files you wrote and/or maintain."
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> > That should make the intent of the sentence quoted clear.
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> 'This' refers to the entire preceding sentence. If it was otherwise, it
> would be incompatible with the 2nd way mentioned at
> http://www.ffmpeg.org/developer.html#Contributing
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> I'm not wedded to the policy as stated in the current docs, but the
> current docs are clear that maintainers can push directly.
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If several people disagree on the interpretation, its clearly not as
"clear" as you claim it to be.

- Hendrik