If by "connections" you mean "I have worked in this space a long time and submitted enough patches to libvpx over the past few years to get commit access" then sure. Exactly like every other open source project?
I didn't see the code before it was available to the entire rest of the world. My patches did go through review just like I'd expect any patches to Daala or Opus or anything else to go through review. But that's a good thing. In this case it led to some minor improvements (the second changeset).
Anyone else could have done what I did. I don't believe you can point to Google refusing anyone's contributions just because they didn't work for Google or have "connections". To claim that it was not possible to review or contribute is clearly falsified by someone doing it.
Re: VP9 is proprietary
Date: 2015-08-17 01:23 am (UTC)I didn't see the code before it was available to the entire rest of the world. My patches did go through review just like I'd expect any patches to Daala or Opus or anything else to go through review. But that's a good thing. In this case it led to some minor improvements (the second changeset).
Anyone else could have done what I did. I don't believe you can point to Google refusing anyone's contributions just because they didn't work for Google or have "connections". To claim that it was not possible to review or contribute is clearly falsified by someone doing it.