From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ffbox0-bg.ffmpeg.org (ffbox0-bg.ffmpeg.org [79.124.17.100]) by master.gitmailbox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F2BAB4BF58 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2025 12:07:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.1.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ffbox0-bg.ffmpeg.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C18F68CD81; Sun, 27 Jul 2025 15:07:30 +0300 (EEST) Received: from haasn.dev (haasn.dev [78.46.187.166]) by ffbox0-bg.ffmpeg.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23CB368CA06 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2025 15:07:23 +0300 (EEST) Received: from haasn.dev (unknown [10.30.1.1]) by haasn.dev (Postfix) with UTF8SMTP id 7582740222 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2025 14:07:22 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2025 14:07:22 +0200 Message-ID: <20250727140722.GB7604@haasn.xyz> From: Niklas Haas To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches In-Reply-To: <20250722230434.GG29660@pb2> References: <20250722035337.2216565-1-dev@lynne.ee> <20250722230434.GG29660@pb2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] web: announce code.ffmpeg.org X-BeenThere: ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: FFmpeg development discussions and patches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: ffmpeg-devel-bounces@ffmpeg.org Sender: "ffmpeg-devel" Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 01:04:34 +0200 Michael Niedermayer 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 > > [...] > > -- > Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB > > I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know > nothing. -- Socrates > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-devel mailing list > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > ffmpeg-devel-request@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-request@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".