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

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, at 23:28, Marton Balint wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, Jean-Baptiste Kempf 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.
>
> I don't see too much benefit in releasing 6.0 right now just because we 
> bumped API, beacuse API bump typically means API removal, not addition.

Because that's what we agreed on?
Do a major release every year in Dec/Jan with an ABI/API breakage at that time.

If you want to do a 5.2, why not, but I don't see the need, especially if 5.1 is the LTS one. But why not...
But not doing what we said about major releases is a big breakage of trust.

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