On 5/8/16, James Almer <jamr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/8/2016 4:00 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote: >> On 5/8/16, James Almer <jamr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 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. >> >> I would rather complain about not merged screenpresso and rscc >> improvements. >> How much until that happens? >> >> If not going to happen soon I will start cherry picking. > > There's a queue, and those are in the queue. Complaining how things moves > slowly > is just as bad as complaining about merges happening in the first place. > > Assuming it doesn't screw up with the merging scripts then go and > cherry-pick, > but wait for confirmation from either Derek or Hendrik since they know how > it > works. Just keep in mind doing so will also create even more NOP merges that > you said you dislike.
Between the two, waiting for more than one month for merge to happen and extra NOP merges I will pick the last one. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
