[MEncoder-users] Mencoder finishes early on DVD to Divx encoding

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 6/22/05, Nico Sabbi <nsabbi at fastwebnet.it> wrote:
> 
> >
> >Rich, what we don't realize is that sending a patch to the list is not
> >_that_ simple to Joe User: - you need to understand Nroff or XML, and
> >know where the source is located so you may update it (not so
> >straightforward when you only use binary packages),
> >- then you need to know how to make a patch... (then you need to
> >resend it because it's not a unified diff patch),
> >- then you need to figure out where to send it... do you send it to
> >Diego, whose is mail address is on the front page, do you sent it to
> >the ML?
> >- then you need to subscribe to the list, and send the patch (and
> >resend a another mail because you forgot to attach the file)...
> 
> There are rules to do everything. Ours aren't that much restrictive.
> If the contributor doesn't follow them he doesn't have
> enough motivation, consequently the quality of his contribution will likely
> be low.

Not necessarily. I think people are a lot more lazy than careless. If
you ease up the process of contributing, chances are that they would
be more of them, and that the errors would end-up getting fixed one
day or the other.


> >At the end of this process, how many people are left?
> >
> >
> >Ok now, just consider what you have to do to contribute to a wiki:
> >- create an account
> >- log in
> >- start to contribute on the page you just read one minute before !
> >
> 
> ... and possibily contribute unmediated bullshit. Not a great gain for the
> docs.

How about a disclaimer to state that the wiki is not officially
supported then? We already do that for binary versions of MPlayer.


> Posting docs to the ML in the form of patches has the great advantage that
> developers who care enough will correct the parts of text that
> they consider wrong or incomplete, as it happened countless times.

I do agree with that, but I still think that our process is not so
simple and clear to the newcomer.


Guillaume
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