[MPlayer-dev-eng] patches

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

it seems the amount of unapplied patches is steeply increasing :(
IMHO we should do something against that, ... like applying them ;)

perhaps a karma point system would help
so developers who apply a patch get 1 point
dev. who flame loose 1 point
dev. who flame because of a applied patch even though they didnt say a word 
like "dont apply because ..." before should loose 5 points
this could be extended to include the amount of fixed bugs too ...

sadly this is very likely not possible as counting flames automatically is 
tricky, but applied patches / bugfixes could be counted relatvely easiely 
after we have some patch-tracker (roundup)

anyway IMHO, all patches which arent explicitly rejected by someone after a 
week should be applied by whoever notices it, this might introduce a few bugs 
into cvs, but reversing a patch is easy (patch -R ; cvs commit ...) and just 
ignoring all patches is IMHO far worse ...

Michael