Multi Audio Channels & Patch Processing

[Dr. Peter G. Baum]

Hi,

I've got a general questions on how to get patches in the main 
development repository.

On the gstreamer homepage there is only the recommendation that one 
should file a bug. I did this 
(https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733405 and 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733444), but I also saw, that 
there are many bugs open for a long time and probably too few core 
developer to review them.

So my question is, is there any way to speed up the process of getting 
accepted into mainline?

The background is, that currently multi channel reaches the consumer 
market with MPEG-H, Dolby Atmos etc. Currently many gstreamer are too 
limited in the number of channel they accept. That means I have some 
ideas what should be changed (next on my list is for example the support 
for the rf64 format), but I don't want to waste my time, if there is no 
chance that these patches are merged.

Many thanks,

Peter