PR #20197 opened by michaelni
URL: https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/20197
Patch URL: https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/20197.patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <mich...@niedermayer.cc>
>From 23b2e9eac15db42517c977bcaa7fa9446cb54507 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Niedermayer <mich...@niedermayer.cc>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2025 16:15:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc/developer: Basic documentation for Source Plugins
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <mich...@niedermayer.cc>
---
doc/developer.texi | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/developer.texi b/doc/developer.texi
index 10a2de00df..e346c7b57a 100644
--- a/doc/developer.texi
+++ b/doc/developer.texi
@@ -1142,4 +1142,36 @@ Publish the news entry.
Send an announcement to the mailing list.
@end enumerate
+@anchor{Source Plugins}
+@chapter Source Plugins
+
+@section What are Source Plugins
+
+Source plugins are a way to maintain features outside FFmpeg.
+
+Each is basically an automatically mergable git fork of FFmpeg.
+
+@section Checklist to be listed in merge-all-source-plugins
+
+@enumerate
+@item
+Supporting master and the latest release branch (with security fixes, when
vulnerabilities are discovered)
+Supporting older release branches is optional.
+
+@item
+under LGPL or GPL license (that is a compatible Free software license)
+and adds the needed dependancy to the --enable-gpl switch if its GPL.
+@end enumerate
+
+@section How to make a Source Plugin
+
+To be automatically mergable it is important to keep all changes clean and
well separated.
+If you want to create a new source plugin, look at an existing one, or simply
fork FFmpeg,
+name the repository "sourceplugin-..." and add it to
tools/merge-all-source-plugins
+and try running it. Also check that it works with the latest releases.
+
+@section merge Source Plugins
+
+tools/merge-all-source-plugins
+
@bye
--
2.49.1
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