On Mon Apr 29, 2024 at 9:04 PM CEST, Davy Durham wrote: > Presently do you not have to create an account on the devel mailing list to > contribute to ffmpeg? > > So on the flip side, I (actually) find it just as annoying to have to > create such accounts at every project rather than my having one account at > GitHub (or a relatively few for other hosting sites) and can then > contribute to literally thousands of projects without any friction. I would disagree on the "friction" part. To contribute, you have to "fork" the project, add your "fork" as a new git remote, push to it, and only then can you create a pull request. In comparison, contributing using email is literally just two simple git commands without ever having to leave the terminal.
> Moreover now being subscribed to that list I get 50 emails a day that I > have to wait through. Just so long as I want to contribute. Sure I can > create rules but it is pretty obnoxious. > > As a casual contributor, I much prefer getting notifications about my > occasion contributions. But one can opt to get notified of everything by > subscribing to the whole project. I actually agree that the mailing list can be somewhat annoying as well, which is why I like that on SourceHut you can send a patch to their mailing lists without being subscribed and it's standard practice that people Cc you on the replies. I really feel like this should be standard practice; subscribing to the mailing list makes no sense if you only want to send in a single patch, and it increases the effort required by flooding you with emails which aren't relevant to you, as you say. I personally find the mailing list much less annoying than using GitHub even when subscription is required, but I feel like without having to subscribe it's the most straight-forward way really. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".