[FFmpeg-devel] 5.0 release

[James Almer]

On 12/14/2021 5:44 AM, Marton Balint wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2021, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> 
>> Quoting Marton Balint (2021-12-13 22:30:25)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 13 Dec 2021, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 13 Dec 2021, at 16:25, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>>>> If you know of any major issues which need to be done before the 
>>>>> release do them
>>>>> now. If you know of any issues which are release-blocking list them 
>>>>> in a reply
>>>>> here please.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe the audio channel layout would be nice to settle before?
>>>
>>> IMHO we should merge changes which afftect a lot of existing 
>>> functionality
>>> after a release, not before.
>>
>> Why? The change should be backwards compatible and not affect existing
>> callers. And having the new API in would allow them to start migrating
>> to it.
> 
> Because a 300 patch patchset ought to contain errors which should not be 
> present in a release. Also it kind of locks us up with the API with no 
> possibilty to even slightly change it if needed.

In general, once an API is pushed you have at most a few days to make 
breaking changes to it (including reverting). Ymmv, but it would not 
make much of a difference since cutting the 5.0 branch could then be 
done a week after the API is pushed.

Point releases can and are always made to fix issues and regressions 
that may arise. And I've noticed that most bugs are detected once 
rolling release distros grab a new tarball anyway.

> 
> Regards,
> Marton
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