[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/5] MAINTAINERS: some random updating

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 12:09:51PM +0530, Gyan Doshi wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2024-08-15 04:07 am, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Adding level to some of my entries
> > Adding level to some random entries of other people who i have seen actively maintaining their code
> > removing some people who have not been active where others where active
> > 
> > For most we will need to contact people and ask if they are still available as maintainers
> > (but for cases where patches are ignored for many months even with pings sent to the maintainer
> >   entries should be set to unmaintained)
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> > ---
> >   MAINTAINERS | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
> >   1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index a27116e9d15..94d9b04d249 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ ffmpeg:
> >     ffmpeg.c                              Michael Niedermayer, Anton Khirnov
> >   ffplay:
> > -  ffplay.c                              Marton Balint
> > +  ffplay.c                          [2] Marton Balint
> >   ffprobe:
> > -  ffprobe.c                             Stefano Sabatini
> > +  ffprobe.c                         [2] Stefano Sabatini
> >   Commandline utility code:
> >     cmdutils.c, cmdutils.h                Michael Niedermayer
> > @@ -53,11 +53,11 @@ Communication
> >   website                                 Deby Barbara Lepage
> >   fate.ffmpeg.org                         Timothy Gu
> >   Trac bug tracker                        Alexander Strasser, Michael Niedermayer, Carl Eugen Hoyos
> > -Patchwork                               Andriy Gelman
> > +Patchwork                           [2] Andriy Gelman
> >   mailing lists                           Baptiste Coudurier
> >   Twitter                                 Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
> >   Launchpad                               Timothy Gu
> > -ffmpeg-security                         Andreas Cadhalpun, Carl Eugen Hoyos, Clément Bœsch, Michael Niedermayer, Reimar Doeffinger, rcombs, wm4
> > +ffmpeg-security                     [2] Michael Niedermayer, Reimar Doeffinger
> 
> Does the status apply to just you or all listed? The notation is ambiguous.

its meant to be the overall status of how maintained the subsystem is, not
how active each person is

that is if its [0] we need/want a new developer to come in while with [2]
one can expect theres someone taking care of it within
reasonable time/availability/some (personal) pinging

thx

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