[FFmpeg-devel] Query from Reuters on XZ, open source, and Microsoft

[Tomas Härdin]

mån 2024-04-08 klockan 13:13 -0500 skrev Romain Beauxis:
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2024, 11:39 Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel <
> ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Raphael,
> > 
> > I was the author of the tweet and I gave a short talk about this
> > topic at
> > Demuxed at a video conference last year:
> > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OIyOEuQQsCQ&t=930s
> > 
> > That said this is a community project and it would be best to
> > continue the
> > discussion on this mailing list unless agreed otherwise.
> > 
> 
> Thank you for sharing your talk. It's indeed unfortunate that large
> companies are not more generous with the projects they depend on
> _heavily_
> 
> I would like to offer a constructive feedback really not intended as
> trolling. I believe that supporting a more modern development
> workflow such
> as the GitHub PR or gitlab MR would go very long way in helping
> onboarding
> new developers.

Considering which company owns GitHub and which company was the target
of Kieran's criticism, this seems ill-adviced

Also as someone who had to maintain a Gitlab instance at uni for a
couple of years, I agree with Rémi's points

/Tomas