[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Release 6.1

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 05:33:32PM +0200, Lynne wrote:
> Jul 7, 2023, 17:07 by michael at niedermayer.cc:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 06:04:41PM +0200, Lynne wrote:
> >
> >> It's been a while since we've had a release, and we've had
> >> a lot of new features in.
> >> We did say we would make releases more often, and I think
> >> it's about time we have a new release.
> >>
> >
> > yes
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Anything anyone wants to have merged or should we branch
> >> off 6.1 in a few days?
> >>
> >
> > libavradio needs testing, at least build testing.
> > all parts of git master are tested automatically by our user base
> > but anything in seperate repositories might receive less testing
> > so we should encourage people to test these seperate repositories
> > for the release
> >
> 
> It's still quite a new library, its API might change, I think we
> should release 6.1 first, then release libavradio, so the next
> FFmpeg release has a stable target API-wise to use.

I think we should release early and often. also 7.0 would be a
major version bump, so the 6.1 API/ABI doesnt matter.
And i have not seen anyone working on changing the API ...

thx

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