[FFmpeg-devel] Subscribe to ffmpeg-cvslog for patch discussion? Really?

Paul B Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Mon Nov 20 22:25:57 EET 2017


On 11/20/17, Jim DeLaHunt <from.ffmpeg-dev at jdlh.com> wrote:
> On 2017-11-20 05:18, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>> 2017-11-19 11:27 GMT+01:00 Jim DeLaHunt <from.ffmpeg-dev at jdlh.com>:
>>> Looking in the ffmpeg-cvslog archives
>>> <http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/>, it's clear that diffs of
>>> many,
>>> possibly all, commits are sent there. But I see no evidence there of
>>> discussion since 2011
>>> (though I might have missed something).
>> You have.
> Thank you for that 1 bit of data. Telling me what I missed would be even
> more helpful.
>
> But do you have a response to top-level questions:
>
> On 2017-11-19 02:27, Jim DeLaHunt wrote:
>>
>> ...Is it really accurate that every contributor is expected to subscribe
>> to the ffmpeg-cvslog list?  That "Bugs and possible improvements or
>> general questions regarding commits are discussed there"?
>>
>> Or, would it be more accurate to change the title of this section to
>> read "ffmpeg-devel"?  And, to reword the "diffs of all commits are
>> sent there" text to better describe ffmpeg-devel?
>>
> Looking forward to your thoughts.

Not at all. To be a contributor, it is not needed to subscribe to that list.

Hopefully you consider this answer helpfull.


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