[Ffmpeg-cvslog] r5941 - trunk/doc/soc.txt

Luca Barbato lu_zero
Mon Aug 7 11:37:06 CEST 2006


Benjamin Larsson wrote:
> michael skrev:
>> Author: michael
>> Date: Mon Aug  7 10:46:04 2006
>> New Revision: 5941
>>
>> Added:
>>    trunk/doc/soc.txt
>>
>> Log:
>> things to take care of for the next soc
>>
>>
>> Added: trunk/doc/soc.txt
>> ==============================================================================
>>
>> --- (empty file)
>> +++ trunk/doc/soc.txt    Mon Aug  7 10:46:04 2006
>> @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
>> +Google Summer of Code and similar project guidlines
>> +
>> +Summer of code is a project by google in which students are paid to
>> implement
>> +some nice new features for various participating open source projects
>> ...
>> +
>> +This text is a collection of things to take care off for the next soc as
>> +its a little late for this years soc (2006)
>> +
>> +The Goal:
>> +Our goal in respect to soc is and must be of course exactly one thing
>> and
>> +that is to improve FFmpeg, to reach this goal, code must
>> +* conform to the svn policy and patch submission guidlines
>> +* must improve ffmpeg somehow (faster, smaller, "better",
>> +  more codecs supported, fewer bugs, cleaner, ...)
>> +
>> +for mentors and other developers to help students to reach that goal
>> it is
>> +essential that changes to their codebase are publically vissible,
>> clean and
>> +easy reviewable that again leads us to:
>> +* use of a revision control system like svn
>> +* seperation of cosmetic from non cosmetic changes (this is almost
>> entirly
>> +  ignored by mentors and students in soc 2006 which might lead to a
>> suprise
>> +  when the code will be reviewed at the end before a possible
>> inclusion in
>> +  ffmpeg, individual changes where generally not reviewable due to
>> cosmetics)
>> +* frequent commits, so that comments can be provided early
>>   
> + Screen the students better regarding their commitments during the
> summer and skills.
> + Provide a more detailed and well-thought-through project list.
+ Have weekly reports with a summary of the task done, due next week, in
late

lu

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