[FFmpeg-devel] [OSS-Fuzz] Have you considered enabling memory sanitizer?

[Andrew Sayers]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 02:25:04PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 02:36:15PM +0200, Vittorio Giovara wrote:
> > Disagree - this is not the right way to attract new contributors.
> 
> no ?
> did you do a study ?
> 
> try this:
> A. "please we need more maintainers" (we tried this i think)
> B. gently push someone away
>     (now people are angry, they want their rights, their access, they want to
>      contribute ...)
>     ;)

A little off-topic, but I suspect this points to a deeper problem:

When a new person comes along and says "can I contribute my way?", replying
"no, here's the correct way to do it" leaves them with two options:
accept things are done that way for reasons they don't understand,
or go find another project that does things the way they already understand.

If you want more maintainers - that is, people with a deep understanding of the
project - you need to engage new contributors in a discussion about why things
are done that way.  Then over the course of years, they'll learn enough to
become maintainers.

I realise this can be daunting, but think about it this way: if you're right
about the best solution to some problem, arguing your case is a great way to
weed out illogical people who shouldn't become maintainers.  And if you're
wrong, you can hand over a part of the project to a new maintainer, safe in the
knowledge they understand that particular issue better than you.