On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 02:25:04PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 02:36:15PM +0200, Vittorio Giovara wrote: > > Disagree - this is not the right way to attract new contributors. > > no ? > did you do a study ? > > try this: > A. "please we need more maintainers" (we tried this i think) > B. gently push someone away > (now people are angry, they want their rights, their access, they want to > contribute ...) > ;)
A little off-topic, but I suspect this points to a deeper problem: When a new person comes along and says "can I contribute my way?", replying "no, here's the correct way to do it" leaves them with two options: accept things are done that way for reasons they don't understand, or go find another project that does things the way they already understand. If you want more maintainers - that is, people with a deep understanding of the project - you need to engage new contributors in a discussion about why things are done that way. Then over the course of years, they'll learn enough to become maintainers. I realise this can be daunting, but think about it this way: if you're right about the best solution to some problem, arguing your case is a great way to weed out illogical people who shouldn't become maintainers. And if you're wrong, you can hand over a part of the project to a new maintainer, safe in the knowledge they understand that particular issue better than you. _______________________________________________ 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".
