On 2021-01-31 05:05, Rodney Baker wrote:
On Friday, 29 January 2021 21:12:06 ACDT Phil Rhodes via ffmpeg-user wrote:
On Friday, 29 January 2021, 09:43:09 GMT, Mark Filipak (ffmpeg)
<[email protected]> wrote:
Try 'ffmpeg -h type=filter.
It fails. Why? Because "filter" is a "type", not a "name" -- never mind
that the details says "... named decoder/encoder ..."
Yes, this is the sort of thing that causes the problem. Easy to fix, though,
you'd have thought. P
Well, if you have a solution, instead of complaining, submit a patch to the
ffmpeg-devel mailing list. If it gets accepted, congratulations - you've just
helped to improve the product!
In many projects, "instead of complaining, submit a patch" is good
advice. It turns users into contributors. But FFmpeg is not just any
project.
How has submitting documentation patches gone for you?
In my experience, substantive documentation patches trigger immune
responses, and either don't get accepted but cause pain ([1a], [1b],
[1c]), or get accepted only after much pain ([2a], [2b]). Both those
attempts also earned me a private email from a senior developer wishing
I would go away and stop participating in FFmpeg. The patches that get
accepted straightforwardly were minor FAQ changes([3a], [3b]) or repo
fixes [4].
[1a] https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2020-April/261467.html
[1b] https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2020-May/261792.html
[1c] https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2020-May/261811.html
[2a] https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2017-November/220528.html
[2b]
https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2017-December/221596.html
[3a]
https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2017-November/219782.html,
[3b]
https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2017-November/219925.html
[4]
https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2017-November/220095.html
My experience has persuaded me that "instead of complaining, submit a
patch" is not an easy path to follow in this project.
—Jim DeLaHunt
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