[FFmpeg-devel] Democratization

[Soft Works]

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> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
> Marth64
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2025 7:19 PM
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> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Democratization
> 
> And I still blame our infrastructure.
> The process is annoying, so people’s time is wasted, then they get
> annoyed,
> then the mood isn’t great.
> 
> Who wants to spend the time to decipher say, 30 commits as individual
> emails or learn custom software to do this, just to review PRs? And
> then
> try to respond line by line in dull monospace emails.
> 
> This is all time wasted. By the time it’s over I’d have spent 50% of
> the
> time trying to parse the different pieces of the patch and then with
> the
> remaining time actually reading, reviewing, and testing patch. And if
> it
> were my patch, and someone told me to fix some issues, I have to go
> through
> the whole rebasing and patch production process again. Even if it
> takes 15
> minutes per patch, it’s such a waste of time. It adds up.

I've said all of the same things 3 years ago, so I'm the very last person needing to be convinced 😊

I created a stop-gap solution which allow submission via GitHub PRs,
it's back up working again now: https://github.com/ffstaging/FFmpeg

Instructions: https://github.com/ffstaging/FFmpeg/wiki

Discussion: https://www.mail-archive.com/ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org/msg123029.html
https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2021-December/290237.html

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