[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] 5 year plan & Inovation

[Kieran Kunhya]

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On Thu, 2 May 2024, 15:54 Ondřej Fiala, <ofiala at airmail.cc> wrote:

> On Wed May 1, 2024 at 1:01 AM CEST, Andrew Sayers wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 09:05:05PM +0200, Ondřej Fiala wrote:
> > > [...]
> >
> > IMHO, GitHub have improved that user experience significantly in recent
> years.
> > Yes you're still making a fork and pushing it, but the experience is
> more like
> > click the edit button -> make changes (in an admittedly clunky web
> editor) ->
> > save and push.  The rest is just kinda presented as implementation
> details.
> >
> > That's a bit of a nitpick, but the wider point is interesting -
> > GitHub etc. are fast-moving targets, so today's friction points become
> > tomorrow's selling points, then the next day's lock-in opportunities.
> > That makes it hard to compare to a mailing list, which is unlikely to be
> > better or worse ten years from now.
> That's an interesting point, and I guess it also shows how different
> perspectives result in very different conclusions. To me, GitHub being
> fast-moving is a negative for the same reason the whole Web tech stack
> being fast-moving is.
>

I feel it's a huge selection bias to have arguments about Gitlab vs Mailing
list handled on a mailing list.

[insert meme of plane with holes in it]

Kieran

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