[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg Long Term Releases

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi all

The question about LTRs came up a few times over the past year(s)
but noone seems to have started a proper discussion about LTRs so this
mail is intended to change that.

Do people want LTRs ?
As far as i can tell, yes

Should we have LTRs ?
Id say, if people want them, yes sure

What do we need to have LTRs ?
Each LTR needs a maintainer, no maintainer, no LTR

What does such a maintainer need to do ?
keep track of security fixes (vissible on our security page / easy to
keep track of by keeping track of by subscribing to gitlog and
filtering notes about changes to said page)
Backport security fixes
Make new point releases

Comments and Maintainers welcome!

Thanks
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