[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 00/26] Major library version bump

Jean-Baptiste Kempf jb at videolan.org
Wed Jan 25 23:15:08 EET 2023


On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, at 22:03, Marton Balint wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, at 21:08, Marton Balint wrote:
>>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, James Almer wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 1/24/2023 12:45 PM, Anton Khirnov wrote:
>>>>>  So to summarize the discussion so far:
>>>>>
>>>>>  * nobody is strongly arguing for an instability period after the bump,
>>>>>     and there are good reasons against it, therefore we should NOT have
>>>>>     one
>>>>>
>>>>>  * the bump can be done either as bump-then-remove or remove-then-bump
>>>>>       * there are advantages and disadvantages for both of those, nobody
>>>>>         expressed a strong preference for either, so you can keep this as
>>>>>         is
>>>>>
>>>>>  Please correct me if I misunderstood or missed something, or somebody
>>>>>  has a new opinion.
>>>>
>>>> Since the instability period doesn't seem popular, if anyone has some patches
>>>> for ABI changes (enum value or field offset changes, removing avpriv_
>>>> functions we forgot about, etc), then please send them asap so i can push
>>>> them all at the same time.
>>>
>>> Ok, I can send the frame number changes tomorrow. When do you plan to do
>>> the actual bump? I assumed the last 5.x release should be branched first.
>>
>> Why? 5.1 was already branched out.
>
> And is missing 6 months of development. 

So you want us to release both 6.0 and 5.2 at the same time?
I don't get it.

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