Hi Francesco, thanks for your detailed explanation and your decision to include the plugin into the final release - great! I understand your actions perfectly and apologise for causing trouble. I will test my code a bit more and send patches if necessary. Sorry for the late answer, I was also in holiday.
Regards!
Georg
On Monday 08 December 2008, Phil Ehrens wrote:
> I understand. I wanted to make a place for out-of-band
> patches to be announced within the larger umbrella of
> Transcode resources to assist in keeping track of them.
> I realise that in this case the patch is on track for
> going into the core.
>
> The stabilization module is very interesting, btw.
> I wonder whether it can be applied to correct the
> "bobbing" artifacts common to many "restored"
> videos? There are a number of dvd's originating from
> China which have wildly bobbing credits that I think
> would be appropriate candidates.
>
> Georg Martius wrote:
> > 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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