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

[Ondřej Fiala]

On Fri May 3, 2024 at 4:41 PM CEST, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le perjantaina 3. toukokuuta 2024, 15.58.50 EEST Ondřej Fiala a écrit :
> > > And in the end, I could be wrong, but I haven't seen you doing much code
> > > review here. This is all about optimising the workflow for people doing
> > > code reviews and code merges, so why do you even care?
> > 
> > Because your "optimizations" will make contributing to ffmpeg significantly
> > harder for people like me.
>
> All they do is make the first contribution harder because you have to create an 
> account on, and clone the repository within, the web forge. Considering the 
> distribution between first-time contributions versus reviews and further-time 
> contributions, that is a very obviously worthy tradeoff.
>
> Note that I don't particularly prefer Gitlab vs email for submitting code. 
> They both have their pros and cons, and I do not really like either of them. 
> But Gitlab is so much easier for code review and merge, and it looks to me 
> that the shortage of reviewers is even more pressing than developers here.
Fair enough.

> You can't expect the whole community to accomodate your unwillingness to run a 
> web browser or update a ridiculous underprovisioned computer system.
There is a huge difference between running a web browser and running
Firefox/Chrome that you're consistently ignoring. I absolutely don't
mind running Lynx... :)