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

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi Marton

On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 08:44:32AM +0100, Marton Balint wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

I agree but i dont think 15k is enough for this work
we have ATM ~3000 open and new tickets. If we assume that one could do 2 tickets
per hour (obtaining test samples, discussion with user, bisect, ...)
which honestly iam not sure one can do 2 per hour. Some will be very quick but
some will take much more time.
and at lets say 120€ per hour thats about a order of magnitude more than 15k

I dont think my quick guess is off by that much. Even if iam off by a factor of 2
its still quite abit more than 15k.

Something like this can and should be part of STF 2025 though.
For the exact cost of such issue cleanup work, I think whoever is willing to
do it has to say what (s)he needs the payment for it to be.
If more than one person wants to do it, the cheaper person gets the task.

Of course if someone wants to cleanup 3000 tickets for 15k, iam not against
that. It just seems to me too little for the amount of work

thx

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