[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] doc/developer: remove merge request method of contributing

[Rostislav Pehlivanov]

On 6 April 2018 at 12:22, Josh de Kock <josh at itanimul.li> wrote:

> On 2018/04/05 19:17, Lou Logan wrote:
>
>> This seems to confuse Github users into thinking that we may accept pull
>> requests. We do not accept pull requests.
>>
>> Sending patches to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list is our preferred method
>> for users to contribute code.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lou Logan <lou at lrcd.com>
>> ---
>>   doc/developer.texi | 6 ++----
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/doc/developer.texi b/doc/developer.texi
>> index 0fc9c3f21c..a0eeefe242 100644
>> --- a/doc/developer.texi
>> +++ b/doc/developer.texi
>> @@ -30,13 +30,11 @@ consult @url{https://ffmpeg.org/legal.html}.
>>     @chapter Contributing
>>   -There are 3 ways by which code gets into FFmpeg.
>> +There are 2 ways by which code gets into FFmpeg:
>>   @itemize @bullet
>> - at item Submitting patches to the main developer mailing list.
>> + at item Submitting patches to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list.
>>         See @ref{Submitting patches} for details.
>>   @item Directly committing changes to the main tree.
>> - at item Committing changes to a git clone, for example on github.com or
>> -      gitorious.org. And asking us to merge these changes.
>>   @end itemize
>>     Whichever way, changes should be reviewed by the maintainer of the
>> code
>>
>>
> Consider removing 'Directly committing changes to the main tree.' as well.
> I'm not sure how often this is done, but certainly new contributors
> shouldn't be doing this.
>
> --
> Josh
>
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