[FFmpeg-devel] release

[Måns Rullgård]

Aurelien Jacobs <aurel at gnuage.org> writes:

> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:35:20 -0800
> Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx> wrote:
>
>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> > Let's get the two biggest bikeshed topics out of the way right now:
>> > 
>> > - release date: weekend 2009-02-21/22
>> > - release name: 0.5
>> > 
>> > There, progress, it feels so great...
>> 
>> Awesome. No argument here. Does anyone have a reason why we shouldn't go 
>> with 0.5 for a release?
>
> Why 0.5 ? Is it to make people think this is the successor of the
> (never released) 0.4.9 ? IMHO it is not the successor of 0.4.9, it
> is much more than that.
> 0.5 can also be confusing related to the library major number. People
> will wonder, "hey, I downloaded 0.5 but I still only get libavutil49 !"
> (IIRC 49 was derived from 0.4.9)....
> Also, if we choose 0.5, what will be next version ? 0.5.1 ? 0.6 ? Will
> we discuss this at each release ?
>
> The alternative to avoid any confusion and any discussion about how
> much we increase the number at each release is obviously to use date
> as the release number (be it Y.MM or YYYY.MM or YYYYMMDD).

Another alternative is to call this release 1, the next one 2, and so
on.

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