[FFmpeg-user] About trac (bug reporting)

Mark Filipak markfilipak.imdb at gmail.com
Tue Jun 18 18:22:34 EEST 2024


On 18/06/2024 11.16, Greg Oliver wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 9:45 AM Mark Filipak <markfilipak.imdb at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> MasterQuestionable appears to be the boss of trac. I don't know whether
>> MasterQuestionable is a
>> person or a group. The language from MasterQuestionable is as one would
>> find in a chat among peers
>> (i.e., developers) who come into the chat with a wealth of experience and
>> a common language and a
>> particular viewpoint. The language is extremely terse and hard to follow.
>> MasterQuestionable assumes
>> I know what I'm doing and that I know what's on-track and what's not
>> on-track.
>>
>> There needs to be a triage facility between ffmpeg-user and trac in which
>> ideas are discussed,
>> problems are thought out, and good problem statements are formulated. The
>> triage needs to be led by
>> senior users (volunteers) who have been around here a while.
>>
>> MasterQuestionable is expending much time and energy mentoring me because
>> I have not been prepared.
>> That's wasting MasterQuestionable's time that could be better spent.
>>
>> Think of trac as an operating room. Think of triage-to-trac as prepping
>> the patient for surgery.
>> That prep does not occur in the operating room.
>>
>>
> Mark,
> 
> You should join this list and send these inquiries there..
> 
> https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel

That is not the appropriate place:
"[ffmpeg-devel] is about FFmpeg development discussions and patch submissions"



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