Hi Kieran On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 04:05:09PM +0000, Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM James Almer <jamr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 1/17/2025 11:42 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > > > James Almer (12025-01-17): > > >> Don't assume he will not extend the implementation. Ask him instead what > > >> he > > >> plans to do in the long term. > > >> And this could also be marked as experimental, in which case if > > >> abandoned or > > >> proven unstable for several real world cases, it can be removed or > > >> disabled. > > > > > > You were asking for proof that corporate-style mindset harms the > > > project, you have one right here: “we do not want this new feature > > > because it could mean bad PR” is one of the leitmotivs that have pushed > > > the project towards stagnation since the GA has had influence. > > > > I don't see how the GA has anything to do with this when we're talking > > about one person, but you're not wrong in that rejecting a feature for > > being incomplete is not ideal. > > The codebase is not lacking in partially implemented features and > > protocols, and as long as it's stable, is not invasive, and gracefully > > rejects unsupported scenarios, IMO it should be ok. But Kieran's > > requests should be addressed. And like i said, marking it as > > experimental is an option. > > Just to add here what I wrote on IRC. FEC *by definition* is meant to > be used on lossy and otherwise problematic networks. > Therefore it cannot crash, infinite loop etc. Nor can it be "elegant". > The reality is it has heuristics to deal with the real world like any > loss tolerant protocol. This is in addition to the other issues this > implementation has.
If there are issues in a patch, the best is to point the patch author to these issues with sufficient detail so he can correct them. thx [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. -- Vladimir Lenin
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