Romain Beauxis (HE12025-08-02): > Casual contributors eventually become knowledgeable about the > framework/code base which eventually leads to some of them becoming > seasoned developers and reviewers. > > If you want to grow the number of people working with the project, you've > got to be able to open the funnel and welcome new contributors.
It does not work like that. The issue is not the total number of people working on the project but the ratio of senior members capable of reviewing patches over patch submissions. By opening “the funnel” wider, you might attract more people contributing patches, but these people will not become capable of reviewing patches. Somebody who has what it takes to become a reviewer does not need the funnel to be widened for them. > That being said, I understand that these tools are making your work more > difficult and how this potentially reduces again the ability for people to > get reviews. Precisely. > On a personal level, I can attest, regardless of the tools being used, it > is currently incredibly hard to get feedback on your contributions. And it will become worse, because your good contributions will be drowned in crappy contributions by people who just needed to click on “login with github” and “create a pull request” without even reading our guidelines. Regards, -- Nicolas George _______________________________________________ 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".
