[FFmpeg-devel] Re: [RFC] Funded Task Ideas

["Rémi Denis-Courmont via ffmpeg-devel" <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>]

Hi,

Le 4 novembre 2025 21:39:49 GMT+02:00, Nicolas George via ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> a écrit :
>Niklas Haas via ffmpeg-devel (HE12025-11-03):
>> 4. Developers should announce when they begin working on a bounty, and then
>>    nobody else should be able to claim it until a reasonable amount of
>>    time has passed. (Perhaps 12 weeks)
>
>I think we should add:
>
>5. When a bounty involves design decisions, these decisions must be
>   discussed on the mailing list before investing time and effort in
>   implementation.

From a technical standpoint, that seems very agreeable indeed. But at the same time, it sounds unreasonable to expect that of a bounty claimant.

AFAICT, the only way to resolve that contradiction is to not have bounties for features that require design decisions at all. Otherwise problems like the one you claim of the channel layout API are just bound to repeat eventually.

That's not to say that they can't be sponsored some way, but not the bounty way.

In fact, I tend to be against bounties in general. At least that should not be the default model, IMO.
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