[FFmpeg-devel] Patch review: av_dict: add support for empty values

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 10:51:01PM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote:
> I've made some patches, and am finally getting around to sending them
> upstream.
> 
> I'm trying out gmail for dealing with a high-traffic list like this one,
> instead of my usual mutt.  Are the one-line-paragraph long lines it's
> probably going to produce an annoyance for anyone?  I didn't notice
> anything about line lengths in emails in
> https://www.ffmpeg.org/developer.html
> 

> I put in pull requests on github for 4 different branches.  Should I send
> email to the list for each set of patches?  Should I git-send-email, or is
> a mail with a URL for the github pull request enough?  (Or is just a pull
> request enough?  developer.html seems to say that sending a pull request is
> an alternative to mailing patches to the list.)

I think what developer.html meant was that maintainers
after they have made sure code is correct (though whatever means
they consider neccessary and sufficient) contribute code by sending a
mail to ffmpeg-devel or me asking for the code to be merged.

people do contribute also through github style pull requests but
i think everyone prefers the mailing lists for review and discussion
of patches.

so yes, please submit them with git send-email

also ive taken a quick look at the first pull request
> - decimate->sad = av_pixelutils_get_sad_fn(3, 3, 0, decimate); // 8x8, not aligned on blocksize
> + decimate->sad = av_pixelutils_get_sad_fn(3, 3, 0, ctx); // 8x8, not aligned on blocksize

i dont think this is needed though arguably it makes the code more
consistent as the rest uses ctx. but both have a AVClass as first
element and thus should work as av_log context
So a commit message that point to consistency rather than correctness
would be better

about DECIMATE_PACKED_HACK, it would be best if this could be choosen
at runtime by the user

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