From: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 15:21:17 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: its nice to include 'what it does & why' in submitted patches
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its nice to include 'what it does & why' in submitted patches

Originally committed as revision 2631 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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diff --git a/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi b/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi
index da2266e..abe6678 100644
--- a/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi
+++ b/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi
@@ -932,6 +932,10 @@ encoding which ensures that the patch wont be trashed during
 transmission) to the ffmpeg-devel mailinglist, see 
 @url{http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel}
 
+It also helps quite a bit if you tell us what the patch does (for example
+'replaces lrint by lrintf') , and why (for example '*bsd isnt c99 compliant
+and has no lrint()')
+
 @section Regression tests
 
 Before submitting a patch (or committing with CVS), you should at least