Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] web: announce code.ffmpeg.org

[Niklas Haas <ffmpeg@haasn.xyz>]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 01:04:34 +0200 Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> The announcment should probably mention that performance, as in number of
> submissions / percentage of applied / not reviewed patches will be
> monitored compared to the mailing list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

We are not a for-profit company, so there are no shareholders to hold us
accountable if we fail to deliver on some "performance" metric. Besides,
performance metrics can be gamed. I think it would be better to just put it
to a vote, as was initially discussed (iirc). The only thing that should
matter is what the community *prefers* to use.

>
> (and obviously someone has to do that, i do think such basic performance
>  monitoring is important after/ during such a change)
>
> later then (in a month or whatever) we should make an announcment with
> the performance numbers
>
> [And if we want to have strong statistics, then it is neccessary
>  to pre-announce _exactly_ when and what will be meassured how.
>  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preregistration_(science) ]
>
> just thought this would be a interresting subject for a statistics paper,
> if someone (maybe outside the ffmpeg team) wants to do it ...
>
> thx
>
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