Hi all, I can be a backup mentor if needed. 2017-01-25 10:15 GMT-02:00 Thilo Borgmann <thilo.borgm...@mail.de>:
> Am 25.01.17 um 06:14 schrieb Umair Khan: > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Michael Niedermayer <michae...@gmx.at> > wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 03:39:09PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > >>> Hi all > >>> > >>> GSoC 2017 mentor org registration has opened a few days ago > >>> > >>> Our current ideas page lists just a single mentor and single sugestion > >>> http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/SponsoringPrograms/GSoC/2017 > >>> > >>> About the Suggested project > >>> It is a hard design task which few students would be > >>> capable to do. I dont know if someone already knows a student who is > >>> qualified for this and who would be available in FFmpeg GSoC but if not > >>> I think finding a qualified student will be hard or require some luck > >>> and success with a less than qualified student unlikely. > >>> At least thats what my gut feeling says based on past years > >>> > >>> About the number of ideas > >>> one is not enough, and i think its a waste of time if we apply with > >>> such short list, i doubt we would be accepted with one idea and one > >>> mentor > >>> > >>> About the number of mentors > >>> one is not enough > >> > >> ok so our page now contains > >> 4 project ideas and 3 mentors > >> big thanks to the people volunteering and adding them > >> > >> Can we get a few more ? > >> Ideal would be numbers similar to previous years > >> We wont have a student for each idea we list most likely. > >> If we list just 4 we might have just 1 or 2 students, having a > >> wider range of ideas to select from would increase the number of > >> contributions and number of potential new developers joining. > > > > One idea would be to finish rest of the ALS codec tasks. > > What's remaining is :- > > > 1. Implement RLS LMS mode in the decoder. > > See 3. > > > > 2. Get the encoder merged into the main repository. > > This was part of last years (yours) project... I admit that this has not > yet happened is due to my lack of time for working on it with you (which > will most likely change soon :) ) > However I would not like to have this iterated but being finished by the > start of the next GSoC round (which basically means by yesterday...). > > > > 3. Encoder featureset still lacks support for floating point sample > > data encoding. > > 1. & 3. could be part of a "complete feature set for ALS"-project. Both > are too little for separated projects and too much for a qualification > task. But I like the idea of a comprehensive feature set project. You came > up with this idea first so if you're up to mentor it, go ahead and add it > to the wiki. Otherwise I'll do it during the weekend. > > -Thilo > > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-devel mailing list > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org > http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel > _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel