> On Feb 17, 2025, at 03:42, Soft Works <softworkz-at-hotmail....@ffmpeg.org>
> wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-boun...@ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
>> Michael Niedermayer
>> Sent: Freitag, 14. Februar 2025 20:29
>> To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-
>> de...@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.
I think mentor should know what to do and how to do it exactly (maybe with some
details missing) for a GSoC project. An experimental idea without confidence in
feasibility leave the student in a dangerous situation.
>
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