[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg 2.8.1

[Timothy Gu]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 7:20 AM Ganesh Ajjanagadde <gajjanag at mit.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Michael Niedermayer
> <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > ill make 2.8.1 soon from release/2.8
> > if you want something backported push it to release/2.8 soon!
> > (or ask me to pull from your git tree, or if its trivial without
> >  conflicts then the commit hash to cherry pick is fine too)
>
> Can someone direct me to a doc on what should and should not be
> backported?


https://www.ffmpeg.org/developer.html#Criteria-for-Point-Releases-1

In my simplistic view, although e.g not all undefined behaviors are
> exploitable, I still consider such things worthy of a backport as they
> don't introduce any new features, and fix bugs. Similarly, I consider
> all clean, simple bug fixes worthy of a backport.
>

I would agree with this view.

Timothy