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Improve metrics_gather.sh parsing process

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
shell
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by inspecting metrics_gather.sh and tracing how metric output is collected and parsed. Review how optional metrics such as VMAF and malformed output are currently handled. Done should include fault-tolerant parsing, useful errors when metrics cannot be parsed, and a documented decision on whether the metrics return format needs revision.

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Description

  • make it fault-tolerant, at least for optional metrics like VMAF
  • display proper error messages when a metric cannot be parsed
  • possibly review the format used to collect metrics
<TD-Linux> the problem is that all the metric parsing is really simple
<TD-Linux> it expects toe return to basically have one metric per line
<TD-Linux> but if the parsing breaks it could add things like extra lines or other junk instead which would mess it up
<TD-Linux> a more rigid metrics_gather.sh, or a better format for returning the metrics datat would help a lot here
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Python
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Forks
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