[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Haihao Xiang for vaapi

[Soft Works]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of U. Artie
> Eoff
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2021 5:08 AM
> To: ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org
> Cc: U. Artie Eoff <ullysses.a.eoff at intel.com>
> Subject: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Haihao Xiang for vaapi
> 
> Current listed maintainers for vaapi plugin are
> not reponsive and/or currently active in the
> ffmpeg community.  Thus, vaapi plugin patches
> (and qsv plugin) have generally gone ignored or
> lost in the ether for too long.
> 
> Remove Gwenole Beauchesne from vaapi maintainer
> who has not been active since 2016.
> 
> Current alternative maintainer for vaapi is Mark
> Thompson whom has not been active since
> March/April 2021.
> 
> Therefore, add Haihao Xiang to vaapi maintainer
> who's primary role is FFmpeg development with a
> focus on the vaapi and qsv plugins.  Haihao has
> over a decade of media experience and many years
> of FFmpeg development experience, amongst other
> media frameworks.
> 
> The additional patch for adding Haihao as qsv
> plugin maintainer has been submitted previously:
> 
> https://patchwork.ffmpeg.org/project/ffmpeg/patch/20210608141134.27448-1-
> zhongli_dev at 126.com/
> 
> This will help FFmpeg to continue to be the leading
> multimedia framework by allowing these plugins to be
> actively improved, enhanced, and maintained for existing
> and future HW platforms.
> 
> Signed-off-by: U. Artie Eoff <ullysses.a.eoff at intel.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index dcac46003ecd..fddf065a3abb 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -274,8 +274,8 @@ Hardware acceleration:
>    dxva2*                                Hendrik Leppkes, Laurent Aimar,
> Steve Lhomme
>    d3d11va*                              Steve Lhomme
>    mediacodec*                           Matthieu Bouron, Aman Gupta
> -  vaapi*                                Gwenole Beauchesne
> -  vaapi_encode*                         Mark Thompson
> +  vaapi*                                Haihao Xiang
> +  vaapi_encode*                         Mark Thompson, Haihao Xiang
>    vdpau*                                Philip Langdale, Carl Eugen Hoyos
>    videotoolbox*                         Rick Kern, Aman Gupta
> 
> --

Whatever it might count: This has my support. Haihao is the 
most suitable candidate from all who I've been working with on 
QSV issues (on and off-list) in the past two years.

The current situation is far from ideal. In other areas, commits are 
pushed timely and frequently, while there's hardly any progress made
in the Intel area, despite the amount of developer resources they 
are providing.
Even the most trivial and straightforward patches are lying around 
for months without action. It really shouldn't be like that.

@Artie - you might want to update the patch and also add him for QSV.

Kind regards,
softworkz