[MPlayer-cvslog] r24941 - trunk/mplayer.c

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:44:00PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:08:49AM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 19:53 +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > also i think our policy does say that people cant randomly commit to 
> > > code they dont maintain
> > 
> > I hope not too many people insist on that any more. Strict code
> > ownership is not a good development policy.
> 
> I'm glad no one cares what you think is good development policy...

I have to agree here, strict code ownership can easily lead to long-term
problems.  If one person makes all the changes to area X of the code
nobody else will be familiar with it or even attempt to understand it.
If the owner then disappears for some reason (which has happened often
over the lifetime of MPlayer) nobody can make changes or improvements to
the code in question.

Diego