[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] doc/decoders: Clear up description of ac3's drc_scale option

[Gyan Doshi]

On 30-08-2020 05:18 am, Jim DeLaHunt wrote:
> On 2020-08-29 15:10, Aman Verma wrote:
>
>> ...As an aside, am I supposed to submit the revised patch in reply to 
>> this
>> thread or should I submit it as a new thread? This is my first time
>> contributing to a project that uses mailing lists.
>
> The instructions are at 
> <http://ffmpeg.org/developer.html#Submitting-patches-1>, sections 6 
> "Submitting patches" and 8 "Patch submission checklist". I found those 
> instructions a bit of a jumble and hard to follow, so I just reread 
> them all every step of the way. As far as I can tell they don't 
> actually answer your question. But it is a common practice to use "git 
> patch --in-reply-to=<message id>" to set the "In-reply-to" header to 
> the message-ID of your original patch email.
>
> You still need to have a review from someone with commit authority, 
> which is not me. Good luck!

Submit a new patch with updated version number, and reply to using the 
message-id of the parent email.

Gyan