On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 01:04:34 +0200 Michael Niedermayer <mich...@niedermayer.cc> wrote: > The announcment should probably mention that performance, as in number of > submissions / percentage of applied / not reviewed patches will be > monitored compared to the mailing list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law We are not a for-profit company, so there are no shareholders to hold us accountable if we fail to deliver on some "performance" metric. Besides, performance metrics can be gamed. I think it would be better to just put it to a vote, as was initially discussed (iirc). The only thing that should matter is what the community *prefers* to use. > > (and obviously someone has to do that, i do think such basic performance > monitoring is important after/ during such a change) > > later then (in a month or whatever) we should make an announcment with > the performance numbers > > [And if we want to have strong statistics, then it is neccessary > to pre-announce _exactly_ when and what will be meassured how. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preregistration_(science) ] > > just thought this would be a interresting subject for a statistics paper, > if someone (maybe outside the ffmpeg team) wants to do it ... > > thx > > [...] > > -- > Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB > > I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know > nothing. -- Socrates > _______________________________________________ > 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". _______________________________________________ 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".
