Re: Fairy-PRs

Hi James

On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 04:03:14PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> Hi James
> 
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 04:33:15PM -0300, James Almer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> > On 8/27/2026 2:29 PM, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> > > Hi everyone
> > > 
> > > Fairy now has her own git repository and she can open pull requests
> > 
> > No, this is not ok. Commits need to have human and traceable authorship. AI
> > can't be held responsible for mistakes.
> 
> I agree
> but really thers at least 2 things here
> 
> 1. development resposibility, following up on comments on a PR ans such
> 
> fairy cannot do that ATM but it can be added
> 
> 
> 2. morally being responsible for a patch
> 
> Of course Fairy cannot be that. But with humans its also going to be a
> gentelmans agreement, if one breaks it you are out of luck still.
> 
> 
> >
> > > 
> > > Thats her first one: https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/24293
> > > (which she opened as part of investigating issue21153)
> > 
> > Then please open a new PR with a commit under your authorship if you think
> > the change is correct, quoting Fairy as co-author.
> 
> I shall look into doing that.

Heres the new variant of this:
https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/24308/commits

commit authored by my (so there is human resposibility), PR opened by fairy
and i safed alot of time

And fairy all on her own fixed a bug, added a regression test and opened a PR
I quickly reviewed it before approving

thx

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