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Author: Simon Eugster
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To: Dan Dennedy
CC: Minimalistic plugin API for video effects
Subject: Re: [Frei0r] Improving Contribution Mechanism (Was: Minor bug in a plugin (timeout.cpp))
Anything happened since?

2016-03-26 17:23 GMT+01:00 Dan Dennedy <dan@???>:

> It makes sense to have frei0r included in the dyne org on github; I am
> surprised it is not already. So, yeah, I agree to it.
>
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 7:32 AM salsaman <salsaman@???> wrote:
>
>> Seems reasonable to me, it would probably make it easier to find and more
>> accessible.
>> Of course it is up to Jaromil (and others ?) as to what gets included in
>> the dyne repository.
>>
>> Jaromil, what say you ?
>>
>>
>> Salsaman.
>>
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>>
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>> http://lives-video.com
>> https://www.openhub.net/accounts/salsaman
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Simon Eugster <simon.eu@???>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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