unresponsive maintainer policy (its pretty much what has always been done in practice anyway)

changes have been ok-ed by a lot of people (see ffmpeg-dev)
iam commiting this with all the spelling errors intact and fully functional at the request of the heads of the ministry for English compositon

Originally committed as revision 5656 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk

doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi

@@ -1272,7 +1272,10 @@ please use av_log() instead.
    you applied the patch.
 @item
    Do NOT commit to code actively maintained by others without permission. Send
-   a patch to ffmpeg-devel instead.
+   a patch to ffmpeg-devel instead. If noone awnsers within a reasonable time
+   (12h for build failure and security fixes, 3 days for all other small changes
+    1 week for big patches) then commit your patch if you think its ok
+    also note, the maintainer can simply ask for more time to review!
 @item
     Subscribe to the ffmpeg-cvslog mailing list. The diffs of all commits
     are sent there and reviewed by all the other developers. Bugs and possible