On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 09:18:20AM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 5, 2024 at 9:06 PM Michael Niedermayer > wrote: > > > 2. Deliverables > > Patches submitted for review to the FFMPEG dev mailing list. > > > > I think the goal is to get patches merged, not submitted. Yes but the individual developer cannot gurantee that. Nor can we accept a patch before we see it What the individual developer can gurantee is to provide a correct patch fixing the problem. This is similar to GSoC, the student has to finish the work that was agreed. And pass teh mentors review. If the open source project decides not to merge it thats not affecting the student. I would never sign a contract that requires me to merge code into git master and i would also not recommand anyone else to sign such contract. That said i never had a customer had a problem with that. I do try to get code through review its just that in rare cases someone fundamentally disagrees and a change cannot be put in git master. Its a recipe for conflict between teh community and whoever signed such contract. Also here we have STF which pays for maintaince, not for individual bug fixes in master. So making an exception makes even less sense here thx [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB Old school: Use the lowest level language in which you can solve the problem conveniently. New school: Use the highest level language in which the latest supercomputer can solve the problem without the user falling asleep waiting.