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authorReimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger@gmx.de>2007-06-25 13:39:54 +0000
committerReimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger@gmx.de>2007-06-25 13:39:54 +0000
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parent57492dfe166180fac78cb00f8c8955e2f766cbf1 (diff)
Some more minor spelling improvements, some grammar improvement might be
good in some places as well. Originally committed as revision 9424 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
ffmpegs bug/patch/feature request tracker manual
================================================
-NOTE, this is a draft, its not yet recommended to send real bugreports to the
-tracker but rather use the mailing lists
-though, if you are brave and don't mind that your bugreport might disappear or
+NOTE, this is a draft, it is not yet recommended to send real bugreports to the
+tracker but rather use the mailing lists.
+Though, if you are brave and do not mind that your bugreport might disappear or
that you might be mailbombed due to a misconfiguration, you can surely try
-to enter a real bugreport
+to enter a real bugreport.
Overview:
---------
FFmpeg uses roundup for tracking issues, new issues and changes to
existing issues can be done through a web interface and through email.
-Its possible to subscribe to individual issues by adding yourself to the
+It is possible to subscribe to individual issues by adding yourself to the
nosy list or to subscribe to the ffmpeg-issues mailing list which receives
a mail for every change to every issue. Replies to such mails will also
properly be added to the respective issue.
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ bug
feature request
Request of support for encoding or decoding of a new codec, container
or variant.
- Request of support for more, less or plain different output or behavior.
- Where the current behavior cannot be considered wrong.
+ Request of support for more, less or plain different output or behavior
+ where the current behavior cannot be considered wrong.
patch
A patch as generated by diff which conforms to the patch submission and
@@ -39,15 +39,15 @@ patch
Priority:
---------
critical
- Bugs and patches which deal with data loss and security issues
- no feature request can be critical.
+ Bugs and patches which deal with data loss and security issues.
+ No feature request can be critical.
important
- Bugs which makes ffmpeg unusable for a significant number of users, and
+ Bugs which make ffmpeg unusable for a significant number of users, and
patches fixing them.
- examples here might be completely broken mpeg4 decoding or a build issue
- on linux
- while broken 4xm decoding or broken os2 build would not be important, the
+ Examples here might be completely broken mpeg4 decoding or a build issue
+ on Linux.
+ While broken 4xm decoding or broken OS/2 build would not be important, the
separation to normal is somewhat fuzzy ...
For feature requests this priority would be used for things many people
want.
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ normal
minor
Bugs and patches about things like spelling errors, "mp2" instead of
- "mp3" being shown and such
- Feature requests about things few people want or which don't make a big
+ "mp3" being shown and such.
+ Feature requests about things few people want or which do not make a big
difference.
wish
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ Type/Status/Substatus:
users
*/open/open
- Issues which have been briefly looked at and which didnt look outright
- invalid
+ Issues which have been briefly looked at and which did not look outright
+ invalid.
This implicates that no real more detailed state applies yet. And the
more detailed states below implicate that the issue has been briefly
looked at.
@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ bug/open/reproduced
bug/open/analyzed
Bugs which have been analyzed and where it is understood what causes them
- and which exact chain of events triggers them. This analyzis should be
- available as a message in the bugreport
+ and which exact chain of events triggers them. This analysis should be
+ available as a message in the bugreport.
Note, do not change the status to analyzed without also providing a clear
and understandable analysis.
This state implicates that the bug either has been reproduced or that
@@ -115,38 +115,38 @@ bug/open/analyzed
bug/open/needs_more_info
Bugreports which are incomplete and or where more information is needed
from the submitter or another person who can provide the info.
- This state implicates that the bug has not been analyzed or reproduced
+ This state implicates that the bug has not been analyzed or reproduced.
bug/closed/fixed
Bugs which have to the best of our knowledge been fixed.
bug/closed/wont_fix
Bugs which we will not fix, the reasons here could be legal, philosophical
- or others
+ or others.
bug/closed/works_for_me
Bugs for which sufficient information was provided to reproduce but
- reproduction failed that is the code seems to work correctly to the
+ reproduction failed - that is the code seems to work correctly to the
best of our knowledge.
patch/open/approved
Patches which have been reviewed and approved by a developer.
Such patches can be applied anytime by any other developer after some
reasonable testing (compile + regression tests + does the patch do
- what the author claimed)
+ what the author claimed).
patch/open/needs_changes
- Patches which have been reviewed and need changes to be accepted
+ Patches which have been reviewed and need changes to be accepted.
patch/closed/applied
- Patches which have been applied
+ Patches which have been applied.
patch/closed/rejected
- Patches which have been rejected
+ Patches which have been rejected.
feature_request/open/needs_more_info
Feature requests where its not clear what exactly is wanted
- (these also could be closed as invalid ...)
+ (these also could be closed as invalid ...).
feature_request/closed/implemented
Feature requests which have been implemented.