[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Reviewing merges

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 5:57 AM, wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 10:46:38 +0200
> Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2017-04-24 5:50 GMT+02:00 Aaron Levinson <alevinsn at aracnet.com>:
> > > On 4/23/2017 7:07 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Should changes ported from libav (what we call merges) be reviewed
> > >> before being pushed?
> > >
> > > I've asked about this on IRC (#ffmpeg-devel).  The overall consensus
> there,
> > > at least at the time I asked it, is there is an expectation that such
> > > changes have already been properly reviewed for libav, so they are
> likely to
> > > be okay for ffmpeg, and while some issues have crept into ffmpeg as a
> result
> > > of these merges, the merge process has gone smoothly overall.
> >
> > This does not sound correct to me.
>
> Are you joking?


What he meant was: it depends who does the merges, or rather, what
political faction (s)he is part of.

Tsk, tsk.

Ronald