[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] web:call for maintainers

[Lou Logan]

On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:08:04 +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:21:42AM -0900, Lou Logan wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:36:05 +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > 
> > > ---
> > >  src/index |   15 +++++++++++++++
> > >  1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/src/index b/src/index
> > > index 38ecc6d..2a14526 100644
> > > --- a/src/index
> > > +++ b/src/index
> > > @@ -32,6 +32,21 @@ with the latest developments by subscribing to both the
> > >  
> > >  
> > >  <h1>News</h1>
> > > +<a id="call_for_maintainers"></a><h3>December 22, 2011, Call For Maintainers</h3>
> > > +<p>
> > > +FFmpeg is moving faster than ever before, and with your help we could move even
> > > +faster. If you know C and git and want to maintain some part of ffmpeg you can
> > 
> > s/ffmpeg/FFmpeg
> > 
> > > +help us. Just, pick an area of the codebase you want to try to maintain,
> > 
> > Pick an area of the codebase you want to maintain,
> > 
> > > +clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
> > 
> > I'd prefer a link to the download page here instead of a git command:
> > ...maintain, <a href="http://ffmpeg.org/download.html">download</a> the source, subscribe...
> 
> This is not what they need to do though, to maintain they need a git
> clone, simply downloading the source (maybe this could even be
> misunderstood as from a release) is not sufficient

I was making the assumption that the reader would see "FFmpeg is
developed with Git" on the download page, but maybe it's not as obvious
as I think, and my link example probably could have been worded better
("clone our repository" or something).

Go ahead and keep the original wording if you like.