[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v3 01/10] channel_layout: add new channel positions supported by xHE-AAC

Lynne dev at lynne.ee
Mon May 27 13:48:41 EEST 2024


On 27/05/2024 11:07, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> Quoting Lynne via ffmpeg-devel (2024-05-27 10:54:40)
>> On 27/05/2024 10:40, Anton Khirnov wrote:
>>> Quoting Lynne via ffmpeg-devel (2024-05-26 23:42:41)
>>>> ...its an enum entry. Do you want a design document and a proposal?
>>>> You could talk to the person who did the research about it, JEEB.
>>>> Why wait at all? There's only you and JEEB that care about channel
>>>> layouts, you can review it and give it an LGTM. There's no reason to
>>>> wait for days, that is not how reviewing is supposed to work.
>>>
>>> That's exactly how reviewing is supposed to work. Waiting a few days
>>> won't kill anyone and allows more people to comment.
>>>
>>> To the contrary I'm quite unhappy with some recent instances of
>>> developers pushing code immediately upon seeing an LGTM, without giving
>>> other people the opportunity to look at it.
>>
>> I'd understand if it was for generic common code, but if its for code
>> that the one pushing it maintains, I don't see a problem with this, this
>> is how it works in pretty much every project out there.
> 
> I do see a problem - just because you maintain the code doesn't mean
> you always understand all its aspects better than everyone, not to
> mention when reading your own code you tend to see what you meant to
> write rather than what you actually wrote. There's always a nontrivial
> possibility that someone could have a meaningful review comment, so why
> not wait a day or two? There's no harm in it.


I don't get the point of this discussion, I *am* waiting for this patch, 
as I wait for most.
But in general, it is every maintainer's discretion when they push.
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