[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 00/72] Implement support for Vulkan multiplane images and video decoding

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 12:50 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 5:00 PM Kieran Kunhya <kierank at obe.tv> wrote:
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> > On Sun, 19 Feb 2023 at 18:46, Lynne <dev at lynne.ee> wrote:
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> > > Feb 19, 2023, 18:43 by kierank at obe.tv:
> > >
> > > > On Sun, 19 Feb 2023 at 17:36, Kieran Kunhya <kierank at obe.tv> wrote:
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> > > >> Obviously, if we merge it now, and big enough issues are found
> > > >>
> > > >>> which we couldn't fix immediately, I'd have no problem reverting
> > > >>> the Vulkan patches from the 6.0 branch.
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> A major LTS release is not your development sandbox.
> > > >>
> > > >> Kieran
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > Correction, 6.0 is not an LTS. Nonetheless, it's not your sandbox.
> > > >
> > >
> > > If new features don't go in, the project dies.
> > > Everyone but seems to dislike new features.
> > >
> >
> > Sure, then put your features in early in the dev cycle, not days before a
> > major release.
> >
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> This is not a reasonable response, especially to someone who is
> volunteering their time to develop features for a project. If it
> misses 6.0, it sucks.
>

I think its quite reasonable to think of the stability and quality of
the release.
If a feature is rushed into a release and you get a buggy version of
it in 6.0, that also sucks - in fact it may suck more for those people
that were using those features this is going to replace.

- Hendrik