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March 2007

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SOC qualifications
by Michael Niedermayer 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

Hi i am just writing this mail to clarify the ffmpeg-google-SOC qualifications, so there are no missunderstandings * every student should submit a qualification patch task thingy (except kostya who is qualified due to his extensive past work on ffmpeg) * the qualifications are not supposed to be a one bullet one shot test, but rather a test to see if the student can (possibly after several revissions) produce a patch which can be applied to svn, and to see if the patch is full of trivial logic errors or rather just a few errors due to our practically non existing API docs * that means to pass the qualifications, the patch should be accepted and reach svn i belive this is the best way to test if a student would be able to produce something usefull for ffmpeg during the summer and to avoid repeating the nightmare from last year of most ffmpeg-google-soc projects failing due to lack of qualification * now due to googles idiotic deadlines theres not much time for this so i very strongly recommand that students dont wait until the last day to submit their patch, i need time to review the patches and i would guess that few if any patch will be accepted in its first revission current statistics: (without kostya) total number of students : 19 number of students who submitted a patch : 7 number of students whos patch reached svn: 2 -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing whether they exist or not or of what sort they may be, because of the obscurity of the subject, and the brevity of human life -- Protagoras

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Choosing the best projects
by Kamil Nowosad 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

Hi, I'm Kamil and I'm new to the ffmpeg project. This year I want to participate for the first time in the Google's Summer of Code project. I have yet started coding one of your qualification tasks [the TIFF encoder] and I'm now improving it to implement as many features, you have suggested, as possible :-). Next week I have a lot of work, because of my studies, but before the deadline I will have some days, which I planned to finish the task. Now, I'm writing my application and I need to choose some of the projects. I've looked through some of the specifications and they don't seem to be difficult to implement for me. Just some of them need more time to spend, but the goals can be achieved. There are some of projects on the wiki, but, surely, some of them are more useful than others. So I would like to ask you, which projects are more important for you, and which are less. And, the second question, what can I do with the projects without mentors? Some of them are quite nice (for example the gsm, jpeg2000 or ape), but I don't know if it makes sense, sending an application for such a project. -- Best regards, Kamil Nowosad

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