[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Update MAINTAINERS

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 04:12:39PM -0500, Vittorio Giovara wrote:
> This giant list of people who may or may not be active or agreeing to the
> full new rules of the maintainer role overstayed its welcome. It's time to
> call things as they are.
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 553 +---------------------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 549 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 8a1883c48c..3dd9b6d671 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -1,556 +1,11 @@
>  FFmpeg maintainers
>  ==================
> 
> -Below is a list of the people maintaining different parts of the
> -FFmpeg code.
> +There is only one maintainer in FFmpeg, the Technical Committee, tasked
> with
> +resolving issues among developers, and defining the area of improvements in
> +the codebase.
> 
> -Please try to keep entries where you are the maintainer up to date!
> -
> -*Status*, one of the following:
> -[X] Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means it has been
> replaced by a better system and you should be using that.
> -[0] No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the role as you write
> your new code].
> -[1] It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do much other than
> throw the odd patch in.
> -[2] Someone actually looks after it.
> -
> -A (CC <address>) after the name means that the maintainer prefers to be
> CC-ed on
> -patches and related discussions.
> -
> -(L <address>) *Mailing list* that is relevant to this area
> -(W <address>) *Web-page* with status/info
> -(B <address>) URI for where to file *bugs*. A web-page with detailed bug
> -              filing info, a direct bug tracker link, or a mailto: URI.
> -(P <address>) *Subsystem Profile* document for more details submitting
> -              patches to the given subsystem. This is either an in-tree
> file,
> -              or a URI. See
> Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
> -              for details.
> -(T <address>) *SCM* tree type and location.
> -              Type is one of: git, hg, quilt, stgit, topgit
> -
> -

I object to this

I will go over the list of people and update it

thx

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