[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] SSA/ASS subtitles support

[Uoti Urpala]

On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 10:25 +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> I'm fine with giving Evgeniy Stepanov, off course as long as he
> follows the rules (in order not to piss Reimar off) and does a good
> job as maintaining his code.

Why do you mention Reimar specifically? And I think "following the
rules" isn't the most relevant factor deciding whether someone should
get write access.

> However, searching my mail archives shows that there's been only 2
> patches of Evgeniy Stepanov that got committed so far.
> 
> So I guess giving SVN write access to Evgeniy Stepanov isn't so
> obvious, but I imagine it's better to have someone who writes few fine
> code/bugfixes instead of lots of bloated code.

If he's given write access primarily for the purpose of maintaining the
SSA code he wrote then it shouldn't matter too much what other patches
he's written.