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

[Gyan Doshi]

On 2022-08-09 04:55 pm, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 12:46 PM Gyan Doshi <ffmpeg at gyani.pro> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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:
>>>
>>>> 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,
>>>>
>>>> "Send your changes as patches to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list
>>> and
>>>
>>>
>>> if
>>>> the code maintainers say OK, you may commit. This does not apply to
>>>> files you wrote and/or maintain."
>>> That should make the intent of the sentence quoted clear.
>> '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
>>
>> I'm not wedded to the policy as stated in the current docs, but the
>> current docs are clear that maintainers can push directly.
>>
> If several people disagree on the interpretation, its clearly not as
> "clear" as you claim it to be.

Yes, but only one person (Ronald) disagreed. Anton said it was outdated.
But your objection is weird considering that Ronald affirmed that the 
intent was clear. That intent just happens to be opposite to what I 
think it is.

This continued discussion is pointless. All this needs is a patch for 
what the new unambiguous policy should be.

Regards,
Gyan