Hi,
Christian Thaeter schrieb:
Richard Spindler wrote:
2007/11/12, Christian Thaeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[...]
- Minor contributers send patches to Mailinglist. If patches are okay
and plenty, minor contributor is given commit access and becomes major
contributor.
Imo too much work, someone has to pick the things up from the
mailinglist and commit them somewhere,
Depends on how many patches you expect to get per day.
People talk a lot about git and other tools, and I believe that for
high-traffic projects there *is* a difference. But for "low-traffic"
projects (which cinelerra is with respect to patches), the mailing-list
model works perfectly as long as someone feels responsible for patches
(and understands the code enough to review them).
- Independent code chunks are spinned of into seperate projects. API
is fixed. If an API change is neccessary, he how proposed the change
needs to provide patches to affected projects.
Well, there are quicktime4linux and libmpeg3. Don't know how independent they
are nowadays.
What's IMO much more important to attract contributors is the code itself: When
I look
at the sourcecode of ffmpeg, it's quite easy to find where and how things are
done.
If I want e.g. to understand how cinelerras filters work, I see a poorly
documented
mixture of GUI-routines and functional routines. Maybe it's my allergy against
C++,
but I doubt, that many people will jump in and start writing/improving cinelerra
filters...
I can tell a bit about that, because 5 years ago we did the same thing as you:
Fork
code from heroinewarrior.com, libquicktime in our case.
In the beginning it was actually just a patch, and we tried to be compatible to
qt4l.
But then the decision was: Either keep the code like it is (keeping
compatibility),
or clean it up, so others can work on it as well (but loosing compatibility).
I (being the only member from the original team) decided for the latter, and
still
think it was right. This is no offence against any upstream developers: Many of
my
daily programming techniques are learned from qt4l.
Burkhard
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