[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] What to do with 15k euro from STF?

[Marton Balint]

On Mon, 11 Nov 2024, Michael Niedermayer wrote:

> Hi all
>
> as we will likely have 15k available from STF "2024" for another task/project
> what should it be used for ?
>
> I think the obvious options are:
>
> 1. gitlab / forgeyo setup + hw + maintaince on our infrastructure
>    (this was often requested by people in the last years and vittorio
>     also asked about it again in the STF 2025 thread)
>
> 2. Maintainancenace of lynnes GPU based FFv1 encoder (if noone else funds it)
>
> 3. a small amount for patchwork maintaince for Andriy Gelman
>
> the 15k should be enough for more than one of the above
>
> PS: please be nice if you reply, we dont want to scare developers away
> from future grants.

If somebody could go through the trac tickets and do some cleanup on them 
that would be nice. Closing invalid ones, getting additional info from 
users where needed, reproducing them, tracking down commits which caused a 
regression, fixing severities (regressions and crashes supposed to be 
important), adding fate tests where it makes sense. This is actually 
continous work, which Carl Eugen did relentlessly some time ago, but it 
seems nobody does it now.

Regards,
Marton