[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] How to become release maintainer

[James Almer]

On 8/5/2019 10:13 AM, Gyan wrote:
> 
> 
> On 05-08-2019 06:05 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there some official way how to become release maintainer?
>> Expecially creating new releases once in a while.
>> I'm not happy with current release management in FFmpeg.
> 
> Yes, release intervals look to be erratic. What would help is a
> suggested schedule, something like
> 
> master nb_commits % 1500 == 0.

Commit amount means nothing. You could get a whole new decoder in one,
or a fix for a single issue split across seven.

And if you make the cut as strict as you suggest, you'll surely get
broken releases.

> 
> This is self-pacing - rapid/slow development -> rapid/slow release.
> Since the marker indication is known in advance, developers can guess by
> when their patches should be pushed to make it in a release. The exact
> cut point can be relaxed a bit to allow for important backports.
> 
> Gyan
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