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

[Marton Balint]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:

> 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.

Okay, maybe its just me, but I missed this decision, and I don't remember 
any discussions regarding it. Can you give me some pointers?

Thanks,
Marton