[FFmpeg-devel] Project orientation

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 6:01 PM Kieran Kunhya <kieran618 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Going back to the original point in hand.
> Many patches aren't getting reviewed and pushed any more.
>
> In part this is because in 2020 whether we like it or not mailing
> lists are not the way to do Git based development.
> The kernel is the exception to the rule, as Linus says it has a whole
> load of grey-bearded system maintainers who are paid full time to work
> on it.
>
> For new contributors git send-email is annoying. For people wanting to
> push, the .mbox format is annoying, Gmail doesn't support it any more.
> And you can't get new contributors to start using CLI based email
> clients or run their own mail server, that's not going to happen.
>
> A solution like Gitlab is the only way forward. It has worked well for
> dav1d, it can run regression tests on all platforms for all commits:
> https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d
>
> Merges are done with one push of a button. Yes, the branch sprawl is
> not great but it's better than now.
> It has inline patch reviews which are nice.
>
> Whether we like it or not web interfaces are the way 95% of the world
> does Git and we have to move with the times.

Not my intention to top post but gmail hides quoted text.
Forgot to add that git send-email is quite complex to setup now
without your own mail server.
This also restricts our ability to add new developers.

Kieran