[FFmpeg-devel] Areas needing work

[Mayank Agarwal]

Hi

I am interested in contributing to any of the projects.Please enroll
me and tell me the procedure how can
i contribute to ffmpeg

Regards
Mayank


On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Timothy Gu <timothygu99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 8:43 PM Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> There are various areas in the project that are not maintained as well as
>> they
>> should be, heres a certainly not comlpete list, dont hesitate to reply and
>> add to it.
>> If someone wants to pick something up and contribute that is VERY welcome
>>
>> * Post merge review&cleanup, changes merged from libav would benefit from
>>   people reviewing and MUCH MUCH more importantly also people actually
>> caring
>>   about and taking responsibility not just dumping comments with the idea
>>   "someone" will fix it.
>>   Ideally each area would have a maintainer who takes care of it and
>>   keeps it in good nick.
>>
>>
>> * fate clients
>>   we lack a armcc test, a real android test
>>   someone should take over haiku and sunos/solaris fate clients, my haiku
>> VM just
>>   keeps crashing
>>
>
> I can take care of the Haiku test if I have (access to) a better/faster
> computer…
>
>
>> * our fate server lacks the ability to display a user specified release
>>   this makes the output look quite unwieldy
>>   Timothy was working on a rewrite
>>
>
> I haven't touched that thing in a few months but it's in a pretty good
> shape. With a few minor updates it should be good to go at least on
> fate-beta.ffmpeg.org or something like that. There are still a few minor
> things I want to fix (like minirep/minilog, warning diff (is it really
> useful now since most boxes are using make -jx and testing order changes
> every time?), and some minor styling issue).
>
> [...]
>
>> * Decentralize
>>   Too many things are done and admined by me, iam doing security updates
>> to the
>>   servers, doing the git merges, maintaining all releases, maintaining
>> half the
>>   fate clients, submitting data to coverity and doing all the crap that
>> noone
>>   else wants to do.
>>   Does the community care so little that they want me to be a single point
>> of
>>   failure?
>>   We need people to take some of this over at least on the basis of a
>> backup
>>   in case iam unavailable for whatever reason, and i think it should
>> ideally
>>   be people who do not yet have their daily work shedule overflowing with
>> ffmpeg
>>   work but better new volunteers.
>>
>
> - Project servers: MAINTAINERS list four people [1], one of which I have
> never
>   ever seen on this list, and it is not clear to me how the servers are
>   administered (who pays for it? who has access to it? who has access to the
>   hosting company's setting page?) [2]
> - Git merges: when I first came to this project merges are still called
> "Merge
>   from remote tracking branch 'qatar/master'." WTF is qatar? Now of course
>   that is not a problem any more, but the merges remain undocumented on any
>   official documentation I could find (maybe I didn't look hard enough?). If
>   the behavior itself is not known publicly how can anyone help?
> - Coverity: one can easily hook it up to a FATE box.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/MAINTAINERS#L48
> [2]: Yes I guess I can ask on IRC or whatever but I am lazy, and I know that
>      there are people lazier than me. If it is so hard to find out how to
>      *volunteer* I would not imagine many people trying to volunteer.
>
> But anyway, I can volunteer to take over coverage.ffmpeg.org. But again who
> should I find to discuss this thing in detail? Michael? Clément? I don't
> know.
>
> Also a news article on a call for maintainers would be beneficial (?).
>
> Timothy
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