[gst-devel] [gst-cvs] gst-openmax: .gitignore: ignore more

[Zaheer Merali]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Edward Hervey <bilboed at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'll interpret that as "I don't care", so I went ahead and made the
>>> modifications.
>>
>>  ?? I would rather interpret the following as "I don't care about
>> GStreamer":
>
> What? From your response one would think that 'not caring' about
> .gitignore was a bad thing. It's not, some people care, some people
> don't. He doesn't, I do... there's nothing inherently wrong with that.
>
> And now you throw a bunch of stuff that's completely unrelated:
>
>>  * Removing usage of common submodule
>
> So? What is the impact?
>
> I'm thinking on adding a script that updates the files I copied from
> 'common' and firing it before making a release. How would that be any
> different from the current situation?
>
>>  * Doing whitespace fixes after that and then suggesting those changes
>> go into common (you could have done it in common from the start)
>
> I have suggested ways to improve 'common' and those were ignored.
>
> I don't see why I should put high in my priority list whitespace
> cleanups for something I don't think should even exist (common).
>
>>  * Removing the gst-indent pre-commit
>
> The only thing that script is doing is ensuring the current code has
> two code-styles. Two code-styles = bad.
>
>>  * Not using the gstreamer indentation style (there's a REASON we use
>> it : it allows much faster reviewing of all gstreamer modules by other
>> GStreamer developers).
>
> There has been plenty of time to improve gst-openmax, including the
> code-style, and I've never seen any interest in doing that on any
> mailing list.
>
> Now, the same day you proposed to update the code-style in our
> internal (Nokia) IRC, I came up with a plan to do that without
> disturbing anyone and I made it public on the gst-openmax mailing
> list.
>
> I'm executing that plan, and sent some patches for reviewing.
>
> I'm also a busy person, and could spend my time doing some other more
> productive stuff, and even though I'm doing exactly I said I would,
> apparently that's not good enough for you.
>
>>  Should we remove gst-openmax from git.freedesktop.org ?
>
> Is that a threat? Well I'm going to seriously consider that as I
> haven't seen any benefit from being on the 'GStreamer' umbrella at
> all. If anything, it's the other way around, GStreamer has benefited
> because in the embedded community vendors provide OpenMAX IL
> components, not GStreamer.
>
> --
> Felipe Contreras
>

This all has blown out of proportion. Felipe, Tim and Edward should go
on irc and discuss the problems with gitignore, code style, common
etc. there and come up with a conclusion and learn to be able to talk
rationally between each other.

Zaheer