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