[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] web/contact: clarify mailing list descriptions

Lou Logan lou at lrcd.com
Sat Sep 13 02:07:15 CEST 2014


On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 01:58:20 +0200, wm4 wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:27:00 -0800
> Lou Logan <lou at lrcd.com> wrote:
> 
> > Also slightly reorder mailing lists by "category" of development, user
> > help, then logs.
> > 
> > Also link some phrases to relevant pages.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lou Logan <lou at lrcd.com>
> > ---
> >  src/contact | 25 ++++++++++++-------------
> >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/src/contact b/src/contact
> > index 640ae58..2d0d09e 100644
> > --- a/src/contact
> > +++ b/src/contact
> > @@ -32,30 +32,29 @@
> >        </div>
> >        <br>
> >        <div class="list-group">
> > +        <a class="list-group-item" href="https://lists.ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel/">
> > +          <strong>ffmpeg-devel</strong><br>
> > +          For discussions involving development of FFmpeg. Patches for FFmpeg should be submitted
> > +          here. It is <strong>not</strong> for development of software that use the FFmpeg libraries
> > +          and <strong>not</strong> for <a href="bugreports.html">bug reports</a>.
> > +        </a>
> 
> I think inexperienced/new people would still get confused by this: what
> if they have found a bug, but also made a patch that fixes it?
> 
> ffmpeg-devel says not to report bugs. TRAC says not to post patches.

How should it be worded to be less confusing?


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