[FFmpeg-devel] GitHub releases section is very old

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 09:31:04PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 02:53:34PM +0200, Timo Rothenpieler wrote:
> > On 29.10.2022 14:36, * Neustradamus * wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > > 
> > > It is possible to remove all releases from GitHub?
> > > Because at right, we can see and it is not good promotion for this active project:
> > > - https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg
> > > 
> > > Releases 11
> > > FFmpeg 3.0 Release
> > > Latest on 15 Feb 2016
> > > + 10 releases
> > > - https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/releases
> > > 
> > > The important part is here:
> > > - https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/tags
> > > 
> > > But it is possible to add all time in releases section, a new release with changelog...
> > 
> > We should probably delete all existing releases instead, so they don't cause
> > confusion like this.
> > Github is just a mirror, not any kind of official release channel.
> 
> ill wait a few days so others can comment and then remove all releases from
> github if thats the consensus at the time
> 
> i was not aware we had a old subset of releases listed there

Done, deleted all these (ancient) releases

thx

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