[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] What to do with 15k euro from STF?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Hi,

Le 11 novembre 2024 01:44:26 GMT+02:00, Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc> a écrit :
>Hi all
>
>as we will likely have 15k available from STF "2024" for another task/project
>what should it be used for ?
>
>I think the obvious options are:
>
>1. gitlab / forgeyo setup + hw + maintaince on our infrastructure
>    (this was often requested by people in the last years and vittorio
>     also asked about it again in the STF 2025 thread)

+ Importing Trac DB into the forge, probably.

If Gitlab, Marvin should have then scripts he used for the VLC migration.

>2. Maintainancenace of lynnes GPU based FFv1 encoder (if noone else funds it)
>
>3. a small amount for patchwork maintaince for Andriy Gelman

That seems moot if task 1 is taken up.

Also IMO, patchwork is a failure, as it is too brittle / too reliant on manual updates.