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+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