Bring it up to date with current practice, as the current text does not
cover everything. Drop the reference to unprefixed exported symbols,
which do not exist anymore.
It describes a general development policy, not code formatting. It is
also not true, as these days we tend to prioritize correctness, safety,
and completeness over code size.
It is currently very out of touch with reality.
* declare we are using C99 fully, rather than C90 plus extensions
* mention our use of stdatomic.h
* mention forbidden C99 features, like VLAs and complex numbers
Drop the reference to directly committing code, because
- it is highly discouraged and very rarely done these days
- there is no good reason NOT to submit patches for review
Add a link to the development policy chapter.
This seems to confuse Github users into thinking that we may accept pull
requests. We do not accept pull requests.
Sending patches to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list is our preferred method
for users to contribute code.
Signed-off-by: Lou Logan <lou@lrcd.com>
The Developer Documentation had instructions to
subscribe to the ffmpeg-cvslog email list. But that is
no longer accurate. For the purposes in this section --
review of patches, discussion of development issues --
ffmpeg_devel is the appropriate email list. Some developers
may want to monitor ffmpeg-cvslog, but it is not mandatory.
This is v3 of this doc, based on discussion in thread
<https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2017-November/220528.html>
and in response to docs Maintainer comments in
<https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2017-December/221596.html>.
1. In doc/developer.texi, add a new section about
ffmpeg-devel, based on existing text from ffmpeg-cvslog
section regarding discussion of patches and of
development issues. Reflect wording from discussion at
<https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2017-November/221199.html>
but with copy-editing to make wording more concise.
2. In doc/developer.texi, rewrite the ffmpeg-cvslog section
to match the current usage of ffmpeg-cvslog. Some
developers choose to follow this list, but it is not
mandatory.
There are a lot of improvements possible to the
Developer Documentation page, beyond this refactoring.
However, making those improvements is a much bigger
and more difficult task. This change is "low hanging
fruit".
Signed-off-by: Jim DeLaHunt <from.ffmpeg-dev@jdlh.com>
Signed-off-by: Timothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Previously, the Developer Documentation <ffmpeg.org/developer.html>
contained a single chapter, "1. Developer Guide," with all content under
that single chapter. Thus the document structure was one level deeper
and more complicated than it needed to be. It differed from similar
documents such as /faq.html, which have multiple chapters.
Eliminate the single chapter, and promote each section underneath to
chapter, and each subsection to section. Thus content and relative
structure remains the same, but the overall structure is simpler.
Anchors within the page remain the same.
Signed-off-by: Jim DeLaHunt <from.ffmpeg-dev@jdlh.com>
Signed-off-by: Timothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
This makes the currently semi-public avpriv_aac_parse_header() function
private to libavcodec and adds a proper public API function to return
the parts of the ADTS header required in libavformat.
Fixes regression as of ee72b6d1
Reviewed-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
Signed-off-by: Josh de Kock <josh@itanimul.li>
Signed-off-by: James Almer <jamrial@gmail.com>
Explicitly state that FATE should pass, and code should work
for all reviewers who tested.
Reviewed-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
Signed-off-by: Josh de Kock <josh@itanimul.li>
Change to https for FFmpeg websites.
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Ajjanagadde <gajjanagadde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
It gets rendered inline in HTML and becomes not very clear.
Reviewed-by: Timothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Replace the sections "API" and "Integrating libavcodec or libavformat"
with updated / more accurate text.
See thread:
Subject: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] doc/developer: merge and update sections about external development
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 11:07:07 +0200
With the parameter --toolchain valgrind-massif, the configure
script sets reasonable defaults that can be overridden as explained
in the documentation.
With the parameter --valgrind-memcheck, the configure script sets
reasonable defaults that can be overridden as explained in the
documentation.
The idea of using set_defaults is from Luca Barbato.
The gcov/lcov are a common toolchain for visualizing code coverage with
the GNU/Toolchain. The documentation and implementation of this
integration was heavily inspired from the blog entry by Mike Melanson:
http://multimedia.cx/eggs/using-lcov-with-ffmpeg/
Anton Khirnov
Soft Works
Andriy Gelman
Andreas Rheinhardt
Rostislav Pehlivanov
Lou Logan
Jim DeLaHunt
Diego Biurrun
Michael Niedermayer
Josh de Kock
Vittorio Giovara
Ganesh Ajjanagadde
Rick Kern
Timothy Gu
Nicolas George
James Darnley
Gabriel Dume
Tim Walker
Michael Niedermayer
Stefano Sabatini
Luca Barbato
Reinhard Tartler
Clément Bœsch