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| author | Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at> | 2006-08-07 08:46:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at> | 2006-08-07 08:46:04 +0000 |
| commit | 4f9807d8f89de26362db7749832f916d5bb9f78e (patch) | |
| tree | c4c5ad3f7e075b44f949400212a974f07bc781c1 /doc/soc.txt | |
| parent | bf29ed5dbc8ca3d1acaf0fe04322cc055debcc56 (diff) | |
things to take care of for the next soc
Originally committed as revision 5941 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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diff --git a/doc/soc.txt b/doc/soc.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a7472fb6f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/soc.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Google Summer of Code and similar project guidlines + +Summer of code is a project by google in which students are paid to implement +some nice new features for various participating open source projects ... + +This text is a collection of things to take care off for the next soc as +its a little late for this years soc (2006) + +The Goal: +Our goal in respect to soc is and must be of course exactly one thing and +that is to improve FFmpeg, to reach this goal, code must +* conform to the svn policy and patch submission guidlines +* must improve ffmpeg somehow (faster, smaller, "better", + more codecs supported, fewer bugs, cleaner, ...) + +for mentors and other developers to help students to reach that goal it is +essential that changes to their codebase are publically vissible, clean and +easy reviewable that again leads us to: +* use of a revision control system like svn +* seperation of cosmetic from non cosmetic changes (this is almost entirly + ignored by mentors and students in soc 2006 which might lead to a suprise + when the code will be reviewed at the end before a possible inclusion in + ffmpeg, individual changes where generally not reviewable due to cosmetics) +* frequent commits, so that comments can be provided early |