[FFmpeg-devel] [DECISION] Revoke the decision of dropping ffserver

[James Almer]

On 11/28/2016 5:40 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 09:53:39AM -0900, Lou Logan wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016, at 09:15 AM, Nicolas George wrote:
>>>
>>> ffserver has users
>>
>> I don't know of any. Do you have an estimation of how many users there
>> may be? How much feedback has there been from these alleged users
>> regarding the removal plans?
> 
> iam not nicolas but just out of curiousity i checked our bug tracker
> there are 60 tickets marked as component = ffserver
> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/query?component=ffserver&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col=component&order=priority
> 
> to put this in perspective i tried component=ffmpeg
> which shows 313 tickets
> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/query?component=ffmpeg&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col=component&order=priority

How many are not tagged "ffmpeg" but are tagged as one of the libraries
and the bug in question was found by the user running ffmpeg? Now compare
that with users finding the bugs in their everyday usage of ffplay, ffprobe,
or ffserver.

Seeing we're close to six thousand bugs, it's safe to assume that number
for ffmpeg will be in the thousands, with ffprobe, ffplay and ffserver
very faw away with maybe two digit numbers.