[FFmpeg-devel] Fw: GSoC 2025: Please review your Project Ideas lists

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi Soft Works

On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 07:42:11PM +0000, Soft Works wrote:
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
> > Michael Niedermayer
> > Sent: Freitag, 14. Februar 2025 20:29
> > To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-
> > devel at ffmpeg.org>
> > Subject: [FFmpeg-devel] Fw: GSoC 2025: Please review your Project Ideas lists
> > 
> > Hi everyone
> > 
> > Please help improve the gsoc 2025 page
> > 
> > 2 ideas are missing backup mentors, if you are able please
> > add yourself to them as backup mentor
> > 
> > Also please add more ideas!
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> would this be a valid gsoc project?
> 
> 
> - Develop a scraping tool which iterates ffmpeg forks on GitHub, investigates 
>   branches and identifies patches which don't exist in upstream ffmpeg
> - Deduplicate results
> - Setup a customized AI with knowledge about the ffmpeg source code
> - Run this AI to classify the results:
>   - feature or fix
>   - generally valid or just special cake
>   - value for the project
> - Finally filter and produce a list of high-value patches which are worth looking at
> 
> I believe there are many good and valuable patches out there, which never made
> It into ffmpeg because developers didn't want to go through the submission
> Procedures.

My personal oppinion is that this is a great idea. And that it would be
valuable for FFmpeg.
If you checked teh GSoC rules and the community has no objections
against it then it should be ok

maybe reword the "customized AI" so that its clear that this could be
something simple like just asking chatgpt to clasify commit messages.
So it doesnt look like this would require building/training a new model
from scratch. (as google complained about over speced tasks)

thx

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