Also, there is discussions on what a commit message should contain, apparently the patch had user guidance in the commit message. Literally on how to install dependencies such as gcc using pacman, in the commit message.
Still, I feel like they were pretty rude to this guy for no real reason. I don't think I'd want to work with them.
I really doubt any AI (even some small local models) would actually generate something like this :)
Courtesy of TCS.
> “The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.”
> — Early FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers, attributed to David H. Owens.
Here's the actual thing we're talking about https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/21595#issuecomme...
FFmpeg maintainers have to keep pointing out incorrect parts. And conclude the entire is redundant
The PR interaction are clearly AI filler, at least on the second one
At this point open source projects should charge big companies to review their PRs
Maybe reading his OS documentation will be more appropiate. What's next ? How to install Arch ? Or Mesa ?