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

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, at 22:29, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On 1/25/23, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, at 22:20, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>>> On 1/25/23, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> So user do not need to immediately update code that uses old API to
>>> get new fancy features.
>>
>> And when do you stop doing this?
>
> After 6.0 tagged.
>
>> Also, as 5.1 is LTS, is 5.2 LTS too?
>>
>
> No, its not.

So, we tag 5.2 out of master?
Then bump, and tag 6.0 too? And then branch out 6.0?

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