[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v6 0/1] avformat: add Software Defined Radio support

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Hi,

Le 30 juin 2023 21:02:36 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc> a écrit :
>On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 07:40:53PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 04:38:46PM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
>> > On Fri, 30 Jun 2023, at 16:08, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> > > Also as said previously, If there is at least a 2nd developer working
>> > > on this then we could & should move this to a seperate libraray (libavradio)
>> > 
>> > Why wait for a 2nd dev?
>> 
>> It is significant work
>
>And if we could put it in git master then people could work together to
>build the libavradio out of it as we all want.

You can also achieve that by creating a separate git repo for libavradio on git.ffmpeg.org. Admittedly some people could object to hosting this code by FFmpeg; the point is that I don't see what good putting this inside the FFmpeg master git branch achieves.

>Such collaboration is kind of one of the reasons of having a "git master"

You're better off collaborating with people interested in this, than with the entirety of FFmpeg-devel, me thinks.

That's if this turns into a "Boring Serious Open-Source" project to paraphrase a certain somebody else. If it remains just your hobby project, you're probably better off doing it in your own git repository where you can dictate everything. There you won't have to deal with the FFmpeg TC nor pesky minders of other people's source code such as I.

>If i cannot apply the patches but have to do very deep redesigns then
>it forces me to do all this work alone. That would affect other things
>i would otherwise work on.
>IMHO its better if everyone can collaborate on this libavradio project
>if everyone wants it.

That reasoning only makes sense if a sizable subset of FFmpeg people, and even then it would probably fit better in a separate git repository of the same organisation, than in the same git repository.