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Author: Simon Eugster
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To: salsaman
CC: Minimalistic plugin API for video effects
Subject: Re: [Frei0r] Improving Contribution Mechanism (Was: Minor bug in a plugin (timeout.cpp))
Hi Salsaman,

I just noticed that dyne is already on GitHub anyway:
https://github.com/dyne
So, it might make sense to put frei0r there as well? If we have access,
that is?

Simon

2016-03-26 12:42 GMT+01:00 salsaman <salsaman@???>:

> Hi Simon,
> there is a github project for frei0r: https://github.com/ddennedy/frei0r
>
> Sounds like this is not linked from dyne.org, which should be corrected
> of course.
>
> As for the rest of your suggestions, I concur.
>
> Regards,
> Salsaman.
>
>
>
>
> http://lives-video.com
> https://www.openhub.net/accounts/salsaman
>
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 6:02 AM, Simon Eugster <simon.eu@???> wrote:
>
>> Haha, thanks for the note, Salsaman. I did not even remember I have
>> written this plugin.
>>
>> Now I would like to submit a patch and improve it a bit as well, as I
>> already got my fingers dirty again, but it feels like pre-internet:
>> 1. http://code.dyne.org/frei0r (which I found first) does not provide a
>> git URL anywhere, or at least not at an obvious place
>> 2. Found https://www.dyne.org/software/frei0r/ – URL is here, but for
>> some reason I cannot push anymore, so let’s check out the contribution
>> section
>> 3. There is no contribution section :( After reading through the whole
>> page, I finall found “Communication” where it says that you can fork from a
>> non-official repository (from an outside perspective) on GitHub, and maybe
>> it will be merged in case somebody notices
>>
>> In a nutshell, contributing is a pain, compared to today’s standards, and
>> it looks like we don’t want other people to contribute anyway.
>>
>>
>> My suggestion:
>> 1. Move development to GitHub so we have immediate access to a huge
>> number of developers and encourage them to hack on frei0r. Plus, we have
>> issue tracking.
>> The main repository may still remain on dyne.org as backup or
>> whatever—no problem with git anyway.
>> 2. Create an organisation for frei0r (or dyne) on GitHub so we can easily
>> grant push permissions. I did this with https://github.com/slowmoVideo
>> as well.
>> I can help with the setup, if you want.
>>
>>
>> What do you think about it?
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>> 2016-03-26 9:07 GMT+01:00 salsaman <salsaman@???>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I noted a minor bug in the "timeout" plugin. Default values are not
>>> being set for any of the parameters.
>>>
>>> cc;ing the plugin author.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Salsaman.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://lives-video.com
>>> https://www.openhub.net/accounts/salsaman
>>>
>>
>>
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