[FFmpeg-devel] Sovereign Tech Fund

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting Diederick C. Niehorster (2024-01-29 21:41:29)
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 9:10 PM Vittorio Giovara
> <vittorio.giovara at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 8:22 PM Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > > I have yet to see an actual project of "this magnitude" materialize as a
> > > proposal.
> > >
> > > you can suggest one ?
> > >
> >
> > libavscale!
> 
> Not being a regular, this may not count for much. But this sounds like
> a great opportunity, lets not pass it up. Projects i have seen on the
> mailing list over the last two years or so that i remember and should
> be of interest:
> - swscale rewrite/update/extension
> - deal with the libavdevice situation
> - remove postproc
> - Nicolas various utility proposals for strings, options, etc
> - hell, even a better infrastructure for dealing with incoming patches
> and tests surrounding them, using pull requests, automatic CI fate
> runs upon incoming pull requests, etc.

The main problem with most of these is not funding, it's lack of
agreement on what should be done. In some cases even on basic direction
things should move in. The potential issues mentioned in this thread
would be extra likely to materialize then.

-- 
Anton Khirnov