On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 10:33:56PM +0530, AB wrote: > > > On Monday 06 April 2015 09:13 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > > Hi all > > > > There are various areas in the project that are not maintained as well as > > they > > should be, heres a certainly not comlpete list, dont hesitate to reply and > > add to it. > > If someone wants to pick something up and contribute that is VERY welcome > > > > * Post merge review&cleanup, changes merged from libav would benefit from > > people reviewing and MUCH MUCH more importantly also people actually > > caring > > about and taking responsibility not just dumping comments with the idea > > "someone" will fix it. > > Ideally each area would have a maintainer who takes care of it and > > keeps it in good nick. > > > > > > * fate clients > > we lack a armcc test, a real android test > > someone should take over haiku and sunos/solaris fate clients, my haiku > > VM just > > keeps crashing > > > > I have some spare capacity, I'll try setting up a Haiku VM this weekend.
great > > Are the sunos fate clients in a VM? Is it possible for you to export the VMs > for me to download? the sunos/solaris is a VM but i dont think the VM i have is a good starting point, i was unable to update it last i tried, it really needs a reinstall > > If someone can point me to what is required for an Android FATE client and > how to set one up I can do that as well. i dont know but some android device i think is needed and probably a cross build environment > > > > > > * our fate server lacks the ability to display a user specified release > > this makes the output look quite unwieldy > > Timothy was working on a rewrite > > > > > > * Paid maintainers > > a big problem is that we have areas in the codebase that have no > > maintainr or > > rather noone with sufficient time+will+abilty. > > It would help tremendiusly if maintainers could work full > > time on maintaining code instead of just a few hours in their free > > time > > > > > > * ffserver lacks a regression test > > code that is not tested will accumulate bugs. period > > there are people who use ffserver, they clearly like the lack of > > regression > > tests it seems as noone finds the need to look into changing that. > > > > > > * more people should help on https://trac.ffmpeg.org, like check that > > tickets > > contain all information needed to reproduce and ask the reporter to > > provide > > missing information, check if things are regressions, if they can be > > reproduced, > > bisect regressions or ask the reporter to bisect and help him if needed > > close tickets where there is not enough information to reproduce and the > > reporter doesnt react for months. ATM carl does all that and more but > > iam sure he wouldnt mind if more people would help him > > > > > > * Stipends and Sponsorship programs > > We do not have enough funds for basic things, for example OPW/Outreachy is > > twice a year and to participate we have to pay at least one stipend > > (about 6.5k USD). We participated in december 2014 and it allowed us to > > convert > > all remaining libmpcodecs filters to the native system. resulted in > > multiple > > new video filters and several block ciphers which are faster then all > > other > > tested implementations. For may 2015 we only way after the last minute > > managed > > to secure some funding so we are short of applicants now as for a long > > time ffmpeg was not listed as a participating org. > > > > > > * Decentralize > > Too many things are done and admined by me, iam doing security updates to > > the > > servers, doing the git merges, maintaining all releases, maintaining half > > the > > fate clients, submitting data to coverity and doing all the crap that > > noone > > else wants to do. > > Does the community care so little that they want me to be a single point > > of > > failure? > > We need people to take some of this over at least on the basis of a backup > > in case iam unavailable for whatever reason, and i think it should ideally > > be people who do not yet have their daily work shedule overflowing with > > ffmpeg > > work but better new volunteers. > > Besides the ones listed further up, which ones would you like me to host? anything that could run FFmpeg and is missing from fate.ffmpeg.org would be a welcome addition Thanks [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. -- Aristotle
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