[FFmpeg-devel] [ANNOUNCE] New FFmpeg maintainership

[Anders Grönberg]

Why couldn?t you have forked, or held a vote?
I cannot see how conspiring and stabbing Michael in the back was a
good way of handling it.


On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch> wrote:
> We, the undersigned, announce that as of today FFmpeg maintainership
> has been assumed by a new team. ?Our aim is to facilitate the
> development of exciting new features in a timely manner while keeping
> high quality standards and above all to provide a fair, productive
> environment for developers and contributors.
>
> Development will be structured similarly to the approach taken by the
> Linux kernel:
>
> ?- Write access to the master repository is limited to the
> ? ?maintainer team.
>
> ?- Contributions shall be sent as patches to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list.
>
> ?- All changes shall be reviewed and approved by at least one other
> ? ?developer competent in the affected area. ?This rule applies
> ? ?equally to the maintainer team.
>
> ?- Developers are encouraged to publish private repositories.
>
> The maintainer team initially comprises the following people:
>
> ?Alex Converse
> ?Diego Biurrun
> ?Janne Grunau
> ?Jason Garrett-Glaser
> ?Luca Barbato
> ?Mans Rullgard
> ?Ronald Bultje
>
> The master source repository uses git and is hosted on ffmpeg.org:
>
> ? ?git://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
>
> A web interface is available at http://git.ffmpeg.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=summary
> Commit notifications are sent to the ffmpeg-commits[1] mailing list.
> Devel mailing lists and IRC channels will continue to operate unchanged.
>
> Please direct any queries regarding the technical infrastructure to
> the root team:
>
> ?Attila Kinali
> ?Diego Biurrun
> ?Mans Rullgard
>
> [1] https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-commits
>
> --
> Alex Converse
> Alexander Strange
> Andreas ?man
> Anton Khirnov
> Attila Kinali
> Benjamin Larsson
> Diego Biurrun
> Janne Grunau
> Jason Garrett-Glaser
> Justin Ruggles
> Kostya Shishkov
> Loren Merritt
> Luca Barbato
> Mans Rullgard
> Martin Storsj?
> Reinhard Tartler
> Robert Swain
> Ronald Bultje
>
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