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Draft, proposal: Rename gst-plugins-bad to gst-plugins-extra

Tim-Philipp Müller requested to merge tpm/gstreamer:rename-bad-to-extra into main

I'm proposing we rename gst-plugins-bad to gst-plugins-extra, to get rid of the 'bad' moniker which is an inside joke that's kinda gone on for too long and causes confusion.

I think this is worthwhile to do regardless of any future reorganisations we may want to do.

At this point I'm looking for three kinds of feedback:

  1. Yes! Let's do it now before 1.24!
  2. Yes! Let's do it now before 1.24, but how about calling it $better_name!
  3. No, let's leave it like this for 1.24 and circle back to this in future as part of any bigger reshuffling we may want to do.

This is not the ticket or time to talk about details/wishes regarding any other kind of reorganisation scheme and I reserve the right to edit/remove any comments that talk about that here and do not fit into one of the points above.

The MR itself is not even half-finished of course, but I would like feedback now before doing more work on it.

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