[MPlayer-cvslog] r19258 - trunk/DOCS/tech/oggless-xiph-codecs.txt

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 05:32:51PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 03:03:24PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 02:35:10PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > 
> > > so i am against creating yet another repository, also the soc2006 projects
> > > should have been branches of ffmpeg in the ffmpeg repository not seperate
> > > repositories
> > 
> > The idea was to keep them separate because they would be directed at
> > newbies so they could mess with the repos as much as they want and that
> 
> cant svn restrict access per directory instead of repository?

It's possible with Apache since forever and with svnserve since version
1.3.  We run 1.2.3 on mphq.

> > the repos would be thrown away after the SoC finished (of course the
> > code should get committed to FFmpeg if it was good enough).  Other
> > decoders have also been developed separately before getting committed
> > to FFmpeg.
> 
> i dont like justifying something with that it had always been done that
> way

I'm just saying that there was a precedent.  Anyway, the way I
understood it the SoC repositories were supposed to be throwaway.
AFAICT not all projects will get finished, but this is of course just my
limited understanding.

Diego