[FFmpeg-devel] Donations and what happens with them

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 03:12:36PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 01:48:29PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:40:29PM +0100, Benjamin Larsson wrote:
> > > On 01/24/2011 08:33 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 05:07:42PM +0100, Benjamin Larsson wrote:
> > > >> On 01/24/2011 04:45 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > >>>
> > > >>> But then one of the developers on my side told me he has been offered money
> > > >>> to work for / join the new maintainers.
> > > >>> From where is that money?
> > > >>> from our foundation it seems
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > > >> I'm not aware such events. Most likely not true. But how about we fund
> > > >> you to keep working on your fork? I'm sure there are areas where we can
> > > >> find an agreement for this to happen.
> > > > 
> > > > Thats an odd offer in this thread, but what amount are we talking about?
> > > 
> > > Suggest a project to the foundation board and an amount that you think
> > > is reasonable for the task.
> > 
> > I would suggest refactoring the motion estimation code as a project,
> > it is old code that nobody dares touch.
> 
> Ive tried to clean it up already for free and i failed ...
> The problem was that some changes that where needed to continue simply made
> the code alot slower (yes its about gcc failing to optimize the code equally
> well)
> so after a few alternatives ive tried ive given up with a "fuck gcc"

motion_est.c is used for encoding only.  If a cleaned-up version turns
out to be slower, this is something that can be tolerated up to a point.

> maybe gcc has improved but given the recent coup ill leave cleanup
> of it to you, i dont feel like working for the new maintainers currently

Don't be silly, this is not about me vs. you and it's not to be done for
me or a group of people, it's to be done for FFmpeg.  I'm not asking for
a favor here either.  I'm suggesting a paid task that I would vote for
as foundation board member if you were inclined to take it on.

Diego