[MPlayer-dev-eng] XviD 1.1.x support

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Sat Oct 2 02:05:58 CEST 2004


Guillaume POIRIER writes:
> 
> Thanks for your advise. Now I know I'm doing something unusual here.
> ... but when cosmetics change make the code easier to understand, I do
> think they should be done (I'm no talking about indentation, even though
> it also sometimes helps readability.
> 
> So one way or the other, cosmetics change should be, IMHO, done, and I'm
> offering them right now.

Cosmetic changes are generally frowned upon and only allowed under
special circumstances.  Synching with external libraries is one of
them, though.

> Please, people, tell me if I'm awfully wrong here, but try to convince
> me with good arguments (one that I'm open to hear could be: "you're not
> the maintainer of that code, so get outta here!" -> unfortunately, I
> don't see anyone being the official maintainer of XviD in
> DOCS/tech/MAINTAINERS, so I guess that's one thing that should be
> written somewhere).

Ivan Kalvachev is the maintainer.  And yes, he should add himself to
DOCS/tech/MAINTAINERS.

Diego




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