[FFmpeg-devel] 5.0 blocking issues

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2022, at 17:47, Nicolas George wrote:
> I consider this a toxic configuration. FFmpeg does not "need" to be a
> "serious" project, we just need free time to write beautiful and
> efficient code.

Are you _sure_ this is an opinion that is shared by the majority of contributors on this mailing list?

Quite a few FFmpeg contributors are paid by companies and the popularity of FFmpeg is largely due to its pragmaticism and solving real-case scenarios by users and companies. Aka "serious project" and "working code", not "beautiful code".

There are many academics/research/fun closed/open projects on multimedia that focus on fun and beautiful.
But I don't think FFmpeg is the best one for this.

As for the release management, I would understand that Michael want to stop doing it, but Michael needs to say that explicitly and  maybe someone wants to step up to take this task.

Best,

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