[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] rtsp - alternate protocol

Diego Biurrun diego
Wed Jan 2 20:01:00 CET 2008


On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:54:26AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 12:08:59AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 09:53:24PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 02:57:08PM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Dec 28, 2007 2:42 PM, Aurelien Jacobs <aurel at gnuage.org> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Either an #ifdef VERSION or a version bump. I personaly don't care.
> > > > >
> > > > 
> > > > No need yet for a version bump, this stuff will go away by itself... New
> > > > version of patch#3 attached.
> > > 
> > > patch ok
> > 
> > May I propose granting Ronald commit access?
> 
> iam against it!
> 
> > His patches may need some review rounds to be acceptable, but he has a
> > history of following through and beating them into shape.  Also, there
> 
> he has a history of broken patches with alot of stuff never being approved
> I see RDT and related code, 90% is not in svn
> I see the url_split() patches, first cleanup (introduced a bug) and a
>   purpoted fix which introduced more bugs but all this is one page of code
> Then the resolve_host() stuff, it should have been replaced by standard
> (POSIX) functions, this never happened
> various http improvements like seeking support, these did reach svn and
> work fine AFAIK
> Then there are many small fixes all over the place, these are nice ...
> 
> I certainly dont want to loose ronald as contributor, but iam scared of
> him having direct svn write access!

All of this would only be a problem if he committed non-approved patches.
Avoiding this cannot be so hard, can it?

> Also theres the enourmiously painfull fighting with you if id choose to
> revoke his account later in case it turns out that too much buggy code
> reaches svn ...
> If i just had a sourceforge like interface where i could close someones
> account with a mouse click i would mind less to give write access out.
> But with current root at mphq, no

Nonsense.

> > are a ton of his patches floating around and we have trouble getting all
> > the approved ones applied.  I always get confused which ones can be
> > committed and which ones cannot.  It would be a pity to have them slip
> > through the cracks.  Moreover he seems to intend to continue working on
> > FFmpeg in the future.
> 
> I also have my problems keeping track of his patches, i think if he would
> keep 1 patch per thread and never create a new thread for the same patch.
> Nor post another patch in the same thread, it would be much easier to
> keep track of his patches.
> Anyway its not a big issue for me to commit approved patches from him myself.

Then please commit them, because many patches are being dropped on the
floor, which is very unfortunate.

Diego




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