On 5/8/2016 2:34 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote: > On 5/8/16, Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've been doing merges for a while now, and I am happy to continue >> doing them too, but, I grow quite tired of certain individuals doing >> nothing but, for lack of a better term, defecate on my efforts. It's >> really quite demotivating and immediately sours my day. >> >> I am not going to finger point, but everyone on IRC knows who these >> (very few) individuals are. Some of them have not even sent a patch >> in the last N years. >> >> All I ask is that there is some sort of rule set for this. It's not >> productive to sit on IRC and say "merges are useless" and such when >> contributing nothing yourself. Please either actually contribute, start >> a thread trying to reach a consensus to stop merging (IMO unlikely) or >> just keep silent. If you have nothing productive or nice to say, don't >> say anything. >> >> P.S. Does something in our CoC cover this? > > I do not like NOP merges as they are already polluting git history. > I do not like non-trivial merges when they are just broken. > > If there is something really useful use cherry pick. > > I do not like a lot of things, are we going to disallow my rights to state > my opinions?
No, you can state your opinion, but constant complains about it doesn't help anyone. Start a thread to discuss your argument in favor of stopping merges as Derek suggested instead. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
