tis 2024-04-09 klockan 15:57 -0500 skrev Romain Beauxis: > [Apologies for continuing the conversation, Rémi] > > Le mar. 9 avr. 2024 à 14:05, Tomas Härdin <g...@haerdin.se> a écrit : > > > mån 2024-04-08 klockan 13:13 -0500 skrev Romain Beauxis: > > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2024, 11:39 Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel < > > > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Raphael, > > > > > > > > I was the author of the tweet and I gave a short talk about > > > > this > > > > topic at > > > > Demuxed at a video conference last year: > > > > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OIyOEuQQsCQ&t=930s > > > > > > > > That said this is a community project and it would be best to > > > > continue the > > > > discussion on this mailing list unless agreed otherwise. > > > > > > > > > > Thank you for sharing your talk. It's indeed unfortunate that > > > large > > > companies are not more generous with the projects they depend on > > > _heavily_ > > > > > > I would like to offer a constructive feedback really not intended > > > as > > > trolling. I believe that supporting a more modern development > > > workflow such > > > as the GitHub PR or gitlab MR would go very long way in helping > > > onboarding > > > new developers. > > > > Considering which company owns GitHub and which company was the > > target > > of Kieran's criticism, this seems ill-adviced > > > > Would you mind explaining what you mean exactly? I want to respond > but I'm > not sure if I fully understand your point here.
Microsoft owns Github. I think it would be foolish to make ourselves beholden to Microsoft, for reasons that I hope should be obvious. > > Also as someone who had to maintain a Gitlab instance at uni for a > > couple of years, I agree with Rémi's points > > > > My initial contribution was motivated by the argument presented in > the > original talk that bringing new blood is critical to the survival of > the > project. > > If so, then I do believe that there must be a compromise to be made > between > being easier to join for new developers and changing the existing > workflow. > I'm also aware that changing the existing workflow has been discussed > before. FFmpeg is far from the only project using an email driven workflow. Linux comes to mind. I don't buy arguments from network effects. Subscribing to a mailing list isn't hard. /Tomas _______________________________________________ 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".
