Hi Timo

On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 12:28:20AM +0200, Timo Rothenpieler via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> On 14.10.2025 04:40, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> > Hi Everyone
> > 
> > As we are now looking for sponsors, we also should look for tasks to fund.
> > I suggest, we first do some brainstorming and make a list, and then figure out which
> > tasks we want to sponsor (or maybe someone wants to do one as a volunteer)
> > 
> > Heres some random ideas from me /mostly things for which i am not able to find the time ATM
> > (that is, iam happy if someone else does these)
> > please add your ideas.
> > 
> > * cherry pick the remaining codecs and demuxers from almpeg
> > * cleanup new tickets on trac (aka close (invalid/needs more info/fixed) or open
> > * do something about the difference between mitre and our CVE list (that is go over the output from tools/compare-cvelists.sh)
> > * do we have any bugs or feature requests that have alot of votes on them ?
> > 
> > thx
> > 
> > PS: once we have enough yearly income we can look at hiring / funding people fulltime.
> 
> Since we have just been approved for the EUs YesWeHack program, someone will
> need to work through the incoming bugs and triage/fix/look at them.
> 
> That could definitely be something someone could use some sponsoring for.

great, i agree.

Can we make this a bit more specific (so that in case we choose this) we have
something clear we can pass to SPI.

Should this be payment per bug fixed?
or payment per hour ?

1. I expect we need to first have a specific developer who wants to do this
2. then have SPI draft a contract for the specific jurisdiction where the developer works
3. SPI and the developer sign that
4. only then can the work start

Iam saying above because if the YesWeHack thing begins at a specific time, all above needs
to be done first, also including us finding a consensus that we do want to fund this.

(SPI has contracts for some jurisdictions already so, uncommon jurisdictions likely
 will need more time)

thx

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