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diff --git a/contrib/ffmpeg/doc/soc.txt b/contrib/ffmpeg/doc/soc.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8b4a86db8 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/ffmpeg/doc/soc.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Google Summer of Code and similar project guidelines + +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 of for the next soc as +it's a little late for this year's 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 guidelines +* 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 publicly visible, clean and +easy reviewable that again leads us to: +* use of a revision control system like svn +* separation of cosmetic from non-cosmetic changes (this is almost entirely + 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 were generally not reviewable due to cosmetics). +* frequent commits, so that comments can be provided early |