[FFmpeg-devel] 5.0 release

[Marton Balint]

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.

Regards,
Marton