[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] Policy update

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 06:04:36PM +0200, Roberto Togni wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> attached a proposed update for MPlayer policy, based on many events
> from the last months.
> 
> Please comment and enhance.
[...]
> +12. Always send a patch to mplayer-dev-eng mailing list before committing if
> +    you suspect that the change is going to be controversial. Based on past
> +    experience, at least these changes are controversial:
> +     - feature removal (even obsolete ones)
> +     - changes to "special" output messages (like the "Core dumped ;)" message)
> +     - verbosity changes from default (info) level
> +     - changes to "historical" parts of docs and webpages
> +     - use of internal or external libraries
> +
> +
> +13. Try to keep important discussions and requests (also) on mplayer-dev-eng
> +    mailinglist, so that all developers can benefit from them.
> +    Irc is good for quick discussions, but nodoby is there 24/7

i agree to these, though iam unsure if not maybe 12. should be merged into
some other part ofthe policy but then maybe not dunno

and about the vidix message, yes i wasnt really happy either when i saw its
removial on svnlog ...

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