Hi Nicolas On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 09:24:23AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Hi. > > As I explained earlier in the “Subtitle Filtering Ramp-Up” thread: > > Any non-trivial progress on libavfilter requires touching the format > negotiation code. The format negotiation code is very fragile and has > almost no test coverage at all. > > Touching it as is would be suicidal. > > Therefore, any non-trivial progress on libavfilter requires first adding > test coverage on the negotiation process. > > I started a long time ago: > https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2022-August/299593.html > but it is extremely boring work, I got bored and I could not take some > air working on AVWriter. I do not intend to do boring things unless I > can have some freedom doing fun things too. > > It is boring, but it is not very hard. Which is why I think it would be > a good candidate to throw money at, if we have money that we can throw > at needs. > > It could take the form of bounties: one line of coverage ⇒ one amount of > money. It could work because there is an objective criterion: the test > must pass as is but fail if we artificially remove or alter the line of > code it covers. > > I can advise on the technical matter, I can review patches, list parts > of the code that require coverage and explain what they do. But I do not > know how do do the money part.
I think this whole idea is good, please make sure it is added to the STF page and that someone does all the submission and paper stuff (if no objections) thx [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB Nations do behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. -- Abba Eban
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