[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Release 6.1

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 09:23:45PM +0200, Lynne wrote:
> Oct 28, 2023, 18:49 by michael at niedermayer.cc:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 06:04:41PM +0200, Lynne wrote:
> >
> >> It's been a while since we've had a release, and we've had
> >> a lot of new features in.
> >> We did say we would make releases more often, and I think
> >> it's about time we have a new release.
> >>
> >> Anything anyone wants to have merged or should we branch
> >> off 6.1 in a few days?
> >>
> >
> > Whats the status of this ?
> > I can branch 6.1 anytime
> >
> > It was just that jb told me
> > "6.1 opportunity is gone.
> >  We're too late on the schedule, and noone had time to work on it, so it is wiser to target 7.0 in January"
> >
> > but now i see on IRC
> > <Lynne> make a damn release already
> > <durandal_1707> j-b: drop MiNi from release maintership and nominate Lynne
> > <Lynne> I pledge to bring back /slap IRC messages to those who fail to push the patches they want for release!
> > <j-b> durandal_1707: good point, we should look at doing another 5.1.x release and a 6.0.x release.
> >
> > noone mentioned 5.1.x and 6.0.x to me before
> >
> > anyway, ill try to make releases from all maintained branches,
> >
> > and will branch 6.1 as soon as Lynne or others say everything is ready.
> >
> > thx
> >
> 
> It's never too late to make a release. If we do a release now, nothing's stopping
> us from doing a 7.0 and getting back on track with releases every two months or so,
> like the plan was.
> 
> 7.0 is likely to be a pretty big release, with YUVJ removal, (xHE) AAC+fixes, D3D12 hwdec,
> Vulkan encode and Vulkan AV1, and VVC, and IAMF, and MLP work, so it's a good idea to
> have a release before all this lands.
> 

> I think the tree is in a pretty good state ATM, you should go ahead and branch if you're
> comfortable with it as well.

branch made


> Let's aim for a release by Sunday next week. That should give everyone enough time to
> backport fixes they want in.

I would aim for 1-3 weeks (when code and developers are ready)
dont want to aim for a specific day, better pick a day when everything is fine
not too many distractions, ...

Or is there something that favors us to be before a specific date ?

thx

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