On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 6:01 PM Kieran Kunhya <kieran...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Going back to the original point in hand. > Many patches aren't getting reviewed and pushed any more. > > In part this is because in 2020 whether we like it or not mailing > lists are not the way to do Git based development. > The kernel is the exception to the rule, as Linus says it has a whole > load of grey-bearded system maintainers who are paid full time to work > on it. > > For new contributors git send-email is annoying. For people wanting to > push, the .mbox format is annoying, Gmail doesn't support it any more. > And you can't get new contributors to start using CLI based email > clients or run their own mail server, that's not going to happen. > > A solution like Gitlab is the only way forward. It has worked well for > dav1d, it can run regression tests on all platforms for all commits: > https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d > > Merges are done with one push of a button. Yes, the branch sprawl is > not great but it's better than now. > It has inline patch reviews which are nice. > > Whether we like it or not web interfaces are the way 95% of the world > does Git and we have to move with the times.
Not my intention to top post but gmail hides quoted text. Forgot to add that git send-email is quite complex to setup now without your own mail server. This also restricts our ability to add new developers. Kieran _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
