[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 7/9] MAINTAINERS: Update the entries for the release maintainer for FFmpeg

[Paul B Mahol]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 1:09 AM Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
wrote:

> Ive been told that someone at the BCN video tech meetup claimed to be the
> "release maintainer for FFmpeg".
>
>
That is nothing, I see many claims in many such videos and on many
platforms that they are developer/maintainer of FFmpeg while in fact they
develop/maintain only their closed source business.

Do not tell lies, or half lies, it does not help you on long run.


> If you have any doubt who maintains releases, just do something like the
> following and look at the output:
> VER=5.1
> echo commiters ; git shortlog  --group=committer -s  n$VER..release/$VER
> -n ;\
> echo authors   ; git shortlog                    -s  n$VER..release/$VER -n
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 8 +++++---
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 41a98744adf..a82fa58c69f 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -536,10 +536,12 @@ wm4
>  Releases
>  ========
>
> +7.0                                     Michael Niedermayer
> +6.1                                     Michael Niedermayer
> +5.1                                     Michael Niedermayer
> +4.4                                     Michael Niedermayer
> +3.4                                     Michael Niedermayer
>  2.8                                     Michael Niedermayer
> -2.7                                     Michael Niedermayer
> -2.6                                     Michael Niedermayer
> -2.5                                     Michael Niedermayer
>
>  If you want to maintain an older release, please contact us
>
> --
> 2.45.2
>
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