Multi Audio Channels & Patch Processing

[Tim Müller]

On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 17:55 +0200, Dr. Peter G. Baum wrote:

Hi Peter,

> 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.

Thanks for your patches, and thanks for filing them in bugzilla.

As you can see from bugzilla and commit activity, there's generally
always lots to do, and rarely enough manpower to do it. This tends to be
the case for all open source projects that aren't in maintenance mode :)

Someone will get to your patches sooner or later. Feel free to post a
follow-up comment on the bug or bring up your pending patches on IRC if
you haven't gotten any feedback after a while. Things can fall through
the cracks sometimes. Just because you haven't heard anything for a
month doesn't mean "there's no chance it will ever get merged".

 Cheers
  -Tim

-- 
Tim Müller, Centricular Ltd - http://www.centricular.com