[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 3/3] State that the policy should not be changed without public discussion.

Carl Eugen Hoyos cehoyos
Sat Oct 9 09:27:31 CEST 2010


Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala <at> poste.it> writes:

>  @item
> -   Do not change behavior of the programs (renaming or removing or
> -   changing or adding options etc) or public
> +   Do not change the development policy or or the behavior of the programs
> +   (renaming or removing or changing or adding options etc) or public
>     API or ABI without first discussing it on the ffmpeg-devel mailing list.
>     Do not remove functionality from the code. Just improve!

I'm mildly against this:
It makes this sentence even more difficult to read (note that I originally did
not want to add API and API to this item).
Additionally, there is no reason for this change: Diego claimed that this has
happened before, but as said, this is not true.

Carl Eugen




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