[Ffmpeg-devel] SOC qualifications

[Michael Niedermayer]

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

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