[FFmpeg-devel] next Outreachy & GSoC ideas braindump [RFC]

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 07:48:36PM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Michael Niedermayer
> <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 10:01:00PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > > Hi all
> > > >
> > > > you have a great idea for a Outreachy task or a GSoC task ?
> > > > Or something you always wanted to do but never had the time and
> > > > it would fit in the time for GSoC/Outreachy ?
> > > > Or some feature you always wanted which would fit as a task?
> > > > Also keep in mind Outreachy is more flexible and not limited to
> > > > coding tasks !
> > > > reply and dump it here below:
> > >
> > > ping ?
> > >
> > > also cc-ing ffmpeg-user
> > >
> > > or are all feature requests on trac fake and noone has anything they
> > > think should be implemented ?
> > >
> > > we need ideas for Outreachy, the page is EMPTY:
> > > https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/SponsoringPrograms/Outreachy/2016-12
> >
> >
> > I have some ideas. Most are TODOs / extensions to stuff I wrote that I
> > never ended up doing myself. Some might be hard.
> >
> > vp9:
> > - avx2 loopfilter functions. Qualification task: explain to me without
> any
> > guidance why it's an issue for AVX2 (or SSE2) that the loopfilter in
> vp9.c
> > works on 8px blocks, and explain how I solved that to work on 16px blocks
> > to use SSE2 instructions, and likewise explain how you would extend that
> to
> > work on 32px blocks.
>
> the Qualification task sounds interresting, we required for applicants
> though always to submit a patch that then gets reveiwed and applied.
> Generally a small/tiny part of the whole project.
> So i would suggest to require the applicant to do that as well as your
> Qualification task
>

Progress on cols-only C wrapper sounds like a good qual task.

please add any projects you want to mentor to the page.


I noticed the deadline is Aug 22, I'll be on vacation until end of Aug so I
won't have time to either add things to wiki or to help students get
started. Should probably hold this off until the next round.

Ronald