[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] Some modest proposals

[Luca Barbato]

On 06/12/2010 02:20 PM, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> I'm far more worried about the possibility, the change to git to be
> used as excuse to kick out more "inconvenient" developers, by barging
> their way to commit stuff without approval from selected "master".

ONE of the models we can use with git is using personal trees and pull
requests. Everybody has his public tree with as many branches as he
wants and once a branch is in a nice shape you can ask for review and merge.

Nobody is yet pushing for this model =) Be reassured.

> And please, stop with this cruft rhetoric. It's like labeling random
> people terrorists, they became bad because of their label, not because
> they are bad.

If there are functions variables and macros we don't use anymore
removing them should just help.

> Nobody would join project that is ripping itself apart. No creator
> should enjoy removing other people's work. Nobody would join project
> because the source is nice looking.
> People want challenges.

I challenge you to properly refactor mplayer.c then =)

> There is no cruft in mplayer. There are just possibilities for
> improvement. Find people to fix them. Don't wait for people to just
> appear. Promise developer access for people who are ready to work on
> given task. Participate in GSoC, there is so much work to do in
> MPlayer, why we never got even one task in SoC for all these years?

Nobody proposed them I guess. see my initial point.

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Luca Barbato
Gentoo/linux
http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero