[FFmpeg-devel] [VOTE] Should Michael Nidermayer follow his own rules

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Sun Aug 17 20:23:35 CEST 2008


On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 07:52:18PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 06:34:33PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > Something I'd like clarified, is whether Michael Nidermayer should
> > follow the same rules he sets for others.
[...]
> > - Never touch files maintained by others without posting a patch first.
> 
> I do not ask others to do this, diego very commonly fixes typos and
> similar in my code, loren also has more than once commited with no patch.
> and there are many more ...
> You are really applying your own rules here. It never was accepted practice
> to send patches for trivial and obviously correct fixes.

And i do not commit to files maintained by others when i think that they
might disagree with the specific change or have any doubt about its
correctness. And i think everyone else also follows this ...

[...]
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