[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 00/26] Major library version bump

[Marton Balint]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, at 21:08, Marton Balint wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, James Almer wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/24/2023 12:45 PM, Anton Khirnov wrote:
>>>>  So to summarize the discussion so far:
>>>>
>>>>  * nobody is strongly arguing for an instability period after the bump,
>>>>     and there are good reasons against it, therefore we should NOT have
>>>>     one
>>>>
>>>>  * the bump can be done either as bump-then-remove or remove-then-bump
>>>>       * there are advantages and disadvantages for both of those, nobody
>>>>         expressed a strong preference for either, so you can keep this as
>>>>         is
>>>>
>>>>  Please correct me if I misunderstood or missed something, or somebody
>>>>  has a new opinion.
>>>
>>> Since the instability period doesn't seem popular, if anyone has some patches
>>> for ABI changes (enum value or field offset changes, removing avpriv_
>>> functions we forgot about, etc), then please send them asap so i can push
>>> them all at the same time.
>>
>> Ok, I can send the frame number changes tomorrow. When do you plan to do
>> the actual bump? I assumed the last 5.x release should be branched first.
>
> Why? 5.1 was already branched out.

And is missing 6 months of development. IMHO it is friendly to 
users/packagers to have a release which have the latest features and 
API/ABI compatible with older releases. Distros or third party 
packagers can provide upgrades without breaking dependant apps.

We followed the same path for the last major bump. Also I find it
better to let things cool down a bit before we do a 6.0 release with the 
new major versions, even if the "unstable" period is 1 week only or less.

Regards,
Marton