On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 08:08:20PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 07:43:53PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote: > > I am willing to mentor anyone who doesn't mind that I won't be on IRC. > > I don't mind being available via an kind of IM that runs well on > > Android, but IRC never worked out for me. > > I will probably be of only limited help with questions specific to audio > > coding > > though. > > > Btw: I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to just have pool of (co-)mentors > > for the kind of questions that most of us can answer? > > Just feels like it makes sense if people can chose whoever they feel > > most comfortable communicating with. Or is that a stupid idea? > > id say applicants should post these questions to the ML so the whole > pool of developers can help
That works for some things, but when you're new I think you sometimes don't even know exactly where to start, and you need more of a real discussion. In a medium with lower latency than email. But maybe I'm just too biased from how I see things work at work. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel