Re: Fairy-PRs

On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 10:53:12PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> 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

Heres another one:
https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/issues/22696

This is about backporting a security fix.
1. The author points to the 2 patches
2. Marvin asks for 2 PR to be opened
3. 4 month pass while fairy doesnt support opening pull requests
4. Fairy opens 2 pull requests, she correctly assigned authorship and correctly credited the researcher

thx

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