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On date Wednesday 2023-10-18 19:30:11 +0300, R=E9mi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le keskiviikkona 18. lokakuuta 2023, 0.57.45 EEST Michael Niedermayer a =
=E9crit =

> :
> > On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 09:50:41PM +0300, R=E9mi Denis-Courmont wrote:
[...]
> > > What happens if more than one credible developer wants to take up the
> > > project?
> > =

> > Then 15k$ was too much
>
> So that's lowest bidder paradigm. Then you have to have a SoW first. See =
above.

This is similar to some of the issues with the GSOC program, the same
amount of money can mean something very different depending on the
contributors country/cost of life. So it is not really possible to
make a fixed price which is fair to everyone. Possibly it should be
computed depending on the country of the candidate developer depending
on some economic parameter.

> (...)
> > Whats the worst that can happen ?
> =

> The project fails because the terms were too vaguely defined. The GA beco=
me =

> even more reluctant to spend what little money FFmpeg has. Developers are =

> turned off from applying for sponsorship from FFmpeg. The contracted deve=
loper =

> rage-quits.

I can see this happening, but we cannot really predict without trying
- and we can learn from failure.

Another option would be to have something similar to bounties
(e.g. 100$ for each bug fixed - at least this might get low-hanging
fruits go away easily).

Or with some more organization we migth have the equivalent of FFSOC -
although this would be much more complicated to setup (since you have
to check with the student status and get the economical part straight,
deal with drops-out and so on).
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