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

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 09:07:23AM +0200, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> Quoting Michael Niedermayer (2024-06-17 01:08:29)
> > Ive been told that someone at the BCN video tech meetup claimed to be the
> > "release maintainer for FFmpeg".
> > 
> > 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
> 
> Passive aggressive gossip does not belong in a commit message.

we generally explain in a commit message the "why" and "what" and so on.
There was no intention of any aggression.

But how would you word it instead ?

The example git commands simply show the authors and commiters on the release branch
since the first release on it. I think its reasonable to provide these as reference

thx

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