[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Release 6.1

[Steven Liu]

Tristan Matthews <tmatth at videolan.org> 于2023年11月8日周三 00:47写道：
>
> On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 2:36 AM Lynne <dev at lynne.ee> wrote:
> >
> > Oct 29, 2023, 06:57 by dev at lynne.ee:
> >
> > > Oct 29, 2023, 05:51 by michael at niedermayer.cc:
> > >
> > >> On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 09:23:45PM +0200, Lynne wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Oct 28, 2023, 18:49 by michael at niedermayer.cc:
> > >>>
> > >>> > 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.
> > >>> >>
> > >>> >> Anything anyone wants to have merged or should we branch
> > >>> >> off 6.1 in a few days?
> > >>> >>
> > >>> >
> > >>> > Whats the status of this ?
> > >>> > I can branch 6.1 anytime
> > >>> >
> > >>> > It was just that jb told me
> > >>> > "6.1 opportunity is gone.
> > >>> >  We're too late on the schedule, and noone had time to work on it, so it is wiser to target 7.0 in January"
> > >>> >
> > >>> > but now i see on IRC
> > >>> > <Lynne> make a damn release already
> > >>> > <durandal_1707> j-b: drop MiNi from release maintership and nominate Lynne
> > >>> > <Lynne> I pledge to bring back /slap IRC messages to those who fail to push the patches they want for release!
> > >>> > <j-b> durandal_1707: good point, we should look at doing another 5.1.x release and a 6.0.x release.
> > >>> >
> > >>> > noone mentioned 5.1.x and 6.0.x to me before
> > >>> >
> > >>> > anyway, ill try to make releases from all maintained branches,
> > >>> >
> > >>> > and will branch 6.1 as soon as Lynne or others say everything is ready.
> > >>> >
> > >>> > thx
> > >>> >
> > >>>
> > >>> It's never too late to make a release. If we do a release now, nothing's stopping
> > >>> us from doing a 7.0 and getting back on track with releases every two months or so,
> > >>> like the plan was.
> > >>>
> > >>> 7.0 is likely to be a pretty big release, with YUVJ removal, (xHE) AAC+fixes, D3D12 hwdec,
> > >>> Vulkan encode and Vulkan AV1, and VVC, and IAMF, and MLP work, so it's a good idea to
> > >>> have a release before all this lands.
> > >>>
> > >>> I think the tree is in a pretty good state ATM, you should go ahead and branch if you're
> > >>> comfortable with it as well.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> branch made
> > >>
> > >
> > > Thanks. I'll get a blog post ready for the transform work, as kierank wanted to post something,
> > > and if users can know to who to point fingers to in case it degrades performance on RPI1 devices.
> > >
> > >
> > >>> Let's aim for a release by Sunday next week. That should give everyone enough time to
> > >>> backport fixes they want in.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> I would aim for 1-3 weeks (when code and developers are ready)
> > >> dont want to aim for a specific day, better pick a day when everything is fine
> > >> not too many distractions, ...
> > >>
> > >> Or is there something that favors us to be before a specific date ?
> > >>
> > >
> > > Not really a reason, Sunday is just an optimistic date to aim for.
> > > If there are no big fixes to backport to the branch, I think we can target it.
> > >
> >
> > The nlmeans_vulkan patch I just sent is the last patch I'd like to have in 6.1.
> > Does anyone else have any patches they would like in 6.1?
>
> I was going to request Steven Liu's enhanced RTMP set but it looks
> like those are already in the release/6.1 branch, so cheers.
:-) Thanks ttmath
>
> -t

Thanks
Steven