[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: drop 1.1 from the releases that i maintain

Timothy Gu timothygu99 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 11 17:42:00 CEST 2013


On Jul 11, 2013 4:21 AM, "Carl Eugen Hoyos" <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
>
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni <at> gmx.at> writes:
>
> > There seems to be no need to continue maintaining it,
> > people can easily upgrade to 1.2
>
> Shouldn't you add this information in a very explicit
> way to the download page?

I agree.

Something like
"This release is not actively maintained and thus we discourage its use.
Please use the 1.2 branch instead, which is fully backward compatible with
this release. If you want to maintain this old version, contact us."
is fine.

Timothy


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