How to get new plug-ins into the repo?

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Sun, 2011-09-25 at 23:42 +0200, Fabrizio Gennari wrote:

> I've written some GStreamer plug-ins for an audio file format. It is far 
> from mainstream: it is mainly of interest for retrocomputing fans. It is 
> the TAP format, a lossy compressed audio format used to efficiently 
> store tapes used by the Commodore computers in the 80s.
> 
> Despite it being obscure and with a limited audience, I wonder whether 
> it was possible to add it to the repository. It is in a Git repo hosted 
> by Sourceforge. Also, there is a patch to the typefind plugin: with 
> that, Totem can play TAP files. The latter would be sent as unified diff.

Link to the repo? Is it a library, or a self-contained plugin? What
license is the code under?

Usually your best bet is to make a patch against gst-plugins-bad and one
against gst-plugins-base for the typefinder, and put it in bugzilla.

Cheers
 -Tim