Hi Phil,
thanks for the wiki page. There was one misunderstanding. Francesco already
added my code to the CVS some time back and we had also some very
constructive conversation and I also send a larger patch to fix the major
coding style things which also went in smoothly. I just thought after that
the stuff is going to be included in the upcoming release candidates, that's
all. I really did not want to make a big fuss.
Regards!
Georg
On Sunday 07 December 2008, Phil Ehrens wrote:
> Georg Martius wrote:
> > > If you would like to make your patch available
> > > via the wiki, please feel free to link to it
> > > from a wiki page. That is probably the best way
> > > to make it available to the people who want it.
> >
> > Okay, I will provide a patch myself. I was just wondering what general
> > policy is followed to include stuff. If things are held back because of
> > minor style issues I believe that it is not the way to go, because new
> > developers get quickly bored.
>
> I am not a transcode developer myself. I only host and
> maintain the wiki. At one time I wrote a wrapper script
> that was used by thousands of people to make dvd's using
> Transcode, but that script fell out of general use several
> years ago.
>
> The actual development of Transcode is handled by a VERY
> small number of contributors at any given time. The
> strictness about coding style is necessary to avoid
> overwhelming the core development staff with the task of
> understanding other peoples code.
>
> Contributions are always welcome. Relieving the burden
> of the core developers by making the patches available
> via the wiki, and keeping track of bug fixes to the
> patches casually via the wiki is a good way of getting
> feedback for the code. But there is no guarantee that
> the core developers will even look at the patches.
>
> I have created a tentative template for you to use to
> present the Stabilization Patch via the wiki:
>
> http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode?Patches
>
> Please feel free to change the format of the example
> to suit your needs.
>
> I will be adding upload capability to the wiki soon,
> which will require per-user passwords. There's plenty
> of disk space but very little bandwidth, however.
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