Hi Luca

It would be really cool if you would return.
Theres a real lack of developers / maintainers in some areas

If you want me to update your entry in the MAINTAINER file,
we now have a [0] [1] [2] that can be added to each to indicate
the "status"
[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.

and other things like (CC <address>)

link to current MAINTAINER file:
https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/HEAD:/MAINTAINERS

thx

On Fri, Aug 01, 2025 at 09:11:29AM +0200, Luca Abeni wrote:
> Hi Michael, hi all
> (I am replying from my personal, non-work address; this is my preferred
> contact)
> 
> Sorry about the situation with the MAINTAINER file; I left ffmpeg
> development more than 14 years ago, after being insulted by some admin I
> never heard about before (I am trying to be gentle with the summary, here
> :)... And I did not realize that my name was not removed from MAINTAINER.
> 
> I see that the situation has changed now, so maybe I might be involved in
> ffmpeg development again in the future... But right now, I am just short of
> time.
> 
> 
> Luca
> 
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2025 at 09:03, luca abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:47:46 +0200
> > From: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
> > To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>
> > Cc: luca abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it>
> > Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Bounce on Luca Abeni from MAINTENERS
> >
> >
> > Hi Peter, Luca
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 12:54:31PM +0000, Peter Enderborg wrote:
> > > I get bouces saying that the user does not exist. Have have send
> > > patch, but no maintainer.
> >
> > @peter, I see no patch submission from you, i also see no
> > email address in the ffmpeg MAINTAINER file.
> >
> > luca abeni is easy to find:
> > https://github.com/lucabe72
> > last activity August 2, 2024
> > email addresse from that commit is in CC
> >
> > @Luca, if you have time, FFmpeg is a bit short on general review
> > manpower also we have a brand new webapp based patch submission system
> > now: https://code.ffmpeg.org/
> > in addition to teh ML based one
> >
> > thx
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > --
> > Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB
> >
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> > Farm
> >

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