[FFmpeg-devel] release

Aurelien Jacobs aurel
Thu Jan 29 15:29:45 CET 2009


On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:43:08 +0100
Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:07:24AM +0000, Robert Swain wrote:
> > 2009/1/29 Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx>:
> > > Jai Menon wrote:
> > >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx> wrote:
> > >>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > >>>> Let's get the two biggest bikeshed topics out of the way right now:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> - release date: weekend 2009-02-21/22
> > >>>> - release name: 0.5
> > >>>>
> > >>>> There, progress, it feels so great...
> > >>> Awesome. No argument here. Does anyone have a reason why we shouldn't go
> > >>> with 0.5 for a release? If you do... I don't really care. :) Let's go
> > >>> with 0.5.
> > >>>
> > >>> BTW, one more pressing matter: How do we actually go about making the
> > >>> release?
> > >>
> > >> I have another question to add to this. Is there some sort of "feature
> > >> freeze" or something?
> > >> Or do we just create a release branch and continue adding new stuff to
> > >> svn head (and porting
> > >> bugfixes to the release branch etc...) ?
> > >> Maybe somebody who knows about this could give a detailed overview of
> > >> what makes up the release process.
> > >
> > > That's a good question. I don't think anyone has any major features
> > > slated to go in before release. If they do, then we can always kindly
> > > ask them to hold the features until after mid-February.
> > 
> > What about Aurel's metadata stuff? As I recall, that's a work in
> > progress and isn't intended to be used yet.
> 
> Urge Aurelien to finish it.  Otherwise we indeed need to decide what to
> do about it.  Aurel?

Working on it. If everything goes well I should be able to finish this
before mid-February (maybe even before the freeze).

Aurel




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