[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v14 9/9] avcodec/evc: Changes in Changelog and MAINTAINERS files

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 at 12:10, Dawid Kozinski/Multimedia (PLT) /SRPOL/Staff
Engineer/Samsung Electronics <d.kozinski at samsung.com> wrote:

>
> At the moment, it doesn't matter to us whether there are two lists or one.
> What matters to us is pushing our patchset containing an EVC codec wrapper
> to ffmpeg. We want to refine and maintain this code and have the
> information
> somewhere about who is responsible for it (EVC) and who to contact with
> questions. We hope that our patchset will eventually be accepted, and we
> will then apply for write access to Git because we want to take care of the
> EVC code.
>

I appreciate your sincerity but history shows that patches to third-party
libs from corporate contributors are not maintained (as Ronald said).
People change jobs, work focus changes etc etc. A good example of this is
libyami. Even more so for EVC which has had very limited uptake.

Regards,
Kieran Kunhya