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Validated News / Re: FFmpeg 7.0 "Dijkstra" released 2024-04-05
Last post by mycroft -[...]And yet, of the 1775 patches that went into ffmpeg, you used 1376 in librempeg, if my counts are correct. That doesn't seem like "mostly fixes of questionable outcomes and benefits" nor "some cool and nice stuff but net result negative" to me.
Its mostly now low-effort, by state sponsored maintenance work over auto-detected issues in source code - of questionable outcomes and benefit.
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There is some cool and nice stuff, like cleanups and refactoring but net results is still negative.
Such reasoning is flawed. There is no correlation between number of new commits since some fixed period and quality of project itself.
Extreme reductions lead to lies.