[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg 5.0 LTS vs 5.1 LTS

[Soft Works]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of Paul
> B Mahol
> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2022 10:01 AM
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> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg 5.0 LTS vs 5.1 LTS
> 
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 12:48 AM Soft Works <softworkz at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
> > > Michael Niedermayer
> > > Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2022 6:36 PM
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> > > devel at ffmpeg.org>
> > > Subject: [FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg 5.0 LTS vs 5.1 LTS
> > >
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > Do people prefer that 5.0 becomes LTS or the next (5.1) ?
> > > Or something else ?
> >
> > @Anton - I'm wondering how your multi-threading transformations
> > to ffmpeg.c would align with the release schedule?
> >
> > I think an LTS release should be either before or after the
> > series of changes you are planning. It would be unfortunate
> > when 5.1 would be somewhere in the middle of those changes
> > and become LTS.
> > (as you said it could take a year in the worst case)
> >
> >
> I'm still expecting info that you said to provide.

That "information" is about explaining why I said that it's difficult
to debug filtering in ffmpeg. I haven't forgot about and I'll 
get to it shortly.

As I mentioned before, I'm concerned about the transitioning 
process but not opposed to the end result. My suggestion was
to retain the current code flow as an option, but nobody else
found it useful - that's ok,  I have no intentions to insist.
Besides that, from my personal pov: the faster it can be driven
to completion, the better, so there's just a "before-state"
(the current state) and a "completion state" to care about.
Having a release in-between would create an additional state
to deal with, and that's what I would find unfortunate.

softworkz