On Wed, 2026-10-21 at 15:14 +0200, Diederick C. Niehorster via ffmpeg- devel wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 3:01 PM Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel > < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Tomas > > > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 01:22:46PM +0200, Tomas Härdin via ffmpeg- > > devel > > wrote: > > > On Wed, 2026-10-21 at 00:09 +0200, Michael Niedermayer via > > > ffmpeg-devel > > > wrote: > > > > Also fairy today gained the ability to close PRs and Issues > > > > > > > > First issue she has closed: > > > > https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/issues/24564 > > > > > > > > ATM closing tickets still requires human approval, but i will > > > > likely > > > > soon remove that latency as i expect her to be able to do that > > > > reliably > > > > > > A fancy Markov chain is not a person > > > > > > If we're going to be automatically closing tickets, why are we > > > delegating that to a statistical model, whose behavior is > > > fundamentally > > > random? > > > > We have >500 open tickets and not enough volunteers to review them > > all > > manually. > > That's why we're using Fairy to help with this. > > > > I do not have the technical expertise to help with the review effort, > but > do wish to weigh in on this change of policy. > > I think it should be discussed and approved by a consortium of > developers > as it is a major change in contribution standards. "we're using" > above > should really be "I decided to use", unless i have missed a > discussion.
This is a good point. I looked through the ML archive and it seems to me the overwhelming majority of contributors were negative about this. Had I been active on the ML at the time I'd have raised a stink. /Tomas _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
