If ffmpeg was not an open source project, and somebody submitted a super obscure ai surfaced bug
The bug would be fixed exactly never
I fail to see how funding them would change that
Sure, if we forget about specifics for a bit, in general terms it does sound reasonable. And they should be sponsoring ffmpeg anyway as they are using it.
However some bug reports should just not happen in the first place
If Google said, look we know we send a lot of bug reports, here’s 50MM a year, go hire a team of dedicated developers to deal with our nonsense, we don’t have the expertise in house to train them on this codebase. I doubt anyone would be complaining.
Nothing wrong with fixing bugs even if they are obscure if you have the time and resources.
It’s common in big tech companies to have a small internal team that has the full-time job of contributing to the FOSS software they use. That is how this should have been handled. Google wants a new feature/bug squished? You’ve got your team that can make the change, that’s literally the whole point of FOSS.
They do sponsor a lot of open source projects though. ffmpeg should be one of them.
If ffmpeg was not an open source project, and somebody submitted a super obscure ai surfaced bug
The bug would be fixed exactly never
I fail to see how funding them would change that
Sure, if we forget about specifics for a bit, in general terms it does sound reasonable. And they should be sponsoring ffmpeg anyway as they are using it.
However some bug reports should just not happen in the first place
If Google said, look we know we send a lot of bug reports, here’s 50MM a year, go hire a team of dedicated developers to deal with our nonsense, we don’t have the expertise in house to train them on this codebase. I doubt anyone would be complaining.
Nothing wrong with fixing bugs even if they are obscure if you have the time and resources.
It’s common in big tech companies to have a small internal team that has the full-time job of contributing to the FOSS software they use. That is how this should have been handled. Google wants a new feature/bug squished? You’ve got your team that can make the change, that’s literally the whole point of FOSS.