1 ffmpegs bug/patch/feature request tracker manual
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4 NOTE, this is a draft, it is not yet recommended to send real bugreports to the
5 tracker but rather use the mailing lists.
6 Though, if you are brave and do not mind that your bugreport might disappear or
7 that you might be mailbombed due to a misconfiguration, you can surely try
8 to enter a real bugreport.
12 FFmpeg uses roundup for tracking issues, new issues and changes to
13 existing issues can be done through a web interface and through email.
14 It is possible to subscribe to individual issues by adding yourself to the
15 nosy list or to subscribe to the ffmpeg-issues mailing list which receives
16 a mail for every change to every issue. Replies to such mails will also
17 properly be added to the respective issue.
18 (the above does all work already after light testing)
20 note: issue = (bug report || patch || feature request)
25 An error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in ffmpeg or libav* that
26 prevents it from behaving as intended.
29 Request of support for encoding or decoding of a new codec, container
31 Request of support for more, less or plain different output or behavior
32 where the current behavior cannot be considered wrong.
35 A patch as generated by diff which conforms to the patch submission and
42 Bugs and patches which deal with data loss and security issues.
43 No feature request can be critical.
46 Bugs which make ffmpeg unusable for a significant number of users, and
48 Examples here might be completely broken mpeg4 decoding or a build issue
50 While broken 4xm decoding or broken OS/2 build would not be important, the
51 separation to normal is somewhat fuzzy ...
52 For feature requests this priority would be used for things many people
59 Bugs and patches about things like spelling errors, "mp2" instead of
60 "mp3" being shown and such.
61 Feature requests about things few people want or which do not make a big
65 Something that is desirable to have but that there is no urgency at
66 all to implement, e.g.: something completely cosmetic like a
67 website restyle or a personalized doxy template or the ffmpeg logo.
68 This priority isn't valid for bugs.
83 Type/Status/Substatus:
86 Initial state of new bugs, patches and feature requests submitted by
90 Issues which have been briefly looked at and which did not look outright
92 This implicates that no real more detailed state applies yet. And the
93 more detailed states below implicate that the issue has been briefly
97 Bugs, patches or feature requests which are duplicate of some other.
98 Note patches dealing with the same thing but differently are not duplicate.
101 Bugs caused by user errors, random ineligible or otherwise nonsense stuff
104 Bugs which have been reproduced
107 Bugs which have been analyzed and where it is understood what causes them
108 and which exact chain of events triggers them. This analysis should be
109 available as a message in the bugreport.
110 Note, do not change the status to analyzed without also providing a clear
111 and understandable analysis.
112 This state implicates that the bug either has been reproduced or that
113 reproduction is not needed as the bug is understood already anyway.
115 bug/open/needs_more_info
116 Bugreports which are incomplete and or where more information is needed
117 from the submitter or another person who can provide the info.
118 This state implicates that the bug has not been analyzed or reproduced.
121 Bugs which have to the best of our knowledge been fixed.
124 Bugs which we will not fix, the reasons here could be legal, philosophical
127 bug/closed/works_for_me
128 Bugs for which sufficient information was provided to reproduce but
129 reproduction failed - that is the code seems to work correctly to the
130 best of our knowledge.
133 Patches which have been reviewed and approved by a developer.
134 Such patches can be applied anytime by any other developer after some
135 reasonable testing (compile + regression tests + does the patch do
136 what the author claimed).
138 patch/open/needs_changes
139 Patches which have been reviewed and need changes to be accepted.
142 Patches which have been applied.
144 patch/closed/rejected
145 Patches which have been rejected.
147 feature_request/open/needs_more_info
148 Feature requests where its not clear what exactly is wanted
149 (these also could be closed as invalid ...).
151 feature_request/closed/implemented
152 Feature requests which have been implemented.
154 feature_request/closed/wont_implement
155 Feature requests which will not be implemented. The reasons here could
156 be legal, philosophical or others.
158 Note, please do not use type-status-substatus combinations other than the
159 above without asking on ffmpeg-dev first!