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From: Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>
To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avformat/subfile: clip seek offset
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 23:44:03 +0200
Message-ID: <aIqSI7ycscqUXj4r@phare.normalesup.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8D537917-5FFD-4FC1-B699-05C2A596CCFD@gmx.net>

Alexander Strasser via ffmpeg-devel (HE12025-07-30):
> Also to make FFmpeg more attractive for new
> contributors and hopefully maintainers as well.

At some point, I hope you will realize how bad an idea it is to try to
attract more newbies, dilettantes and vibe coders at the cost of making
the people who have the knowledge to review patches less productive.

> Receiving and controlling everything via mails
> was never an objective AFAIK. And IMHO it should not be.
> 
> There is CLI tooling which might or might not 
> suit your preferences.

Then let us pull the plus on this half-assed experiment and maybe start
again in a year or two when these are documented and up to their
promises.

> There is a lot to still figure out and that
> is expected and do-able. Just needs
> some more work and co-operation.

I clarify but stand by my position:

I will review this patch when doing so does not require more work than
it used to.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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      reply	other threads:[~2025-07-30 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-07-11 19:49 Kacper Michajłow
2025-07-20 14:07 ` Kacper Michajlow
2025-07-28 22:34 ` Michael Niedermayer
2025-07-29  8:55   ` Nicolas George
2025-07-29 20:00     ` Alexander Strasser via ffmpeg-devel
2025-07-29 20:59       ` Nicolas George
2025-07-29 21:04         ` Kacper Michajlow
2025-07-29 21:07           ` Nicolas George
2025-07-30 20:20         ` Alexander Strasser via ffmpeg-devel
2025-07-30 21:44           ` Nicolas George [this message]

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