[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Release 6.1

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 09:20:33AM +0100, Lynne wrote:
> Nov 7, 2023, 08:36 by dev at lynne.ee:
> 
> > 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?
> >
> 
> Pushed the 2 patches.
> 
> Michael, do you think you can tag the release late tonight?
> No one has said anything yet.
> I'll write release notes for the website by then as well.

ill try to make the release tomorrow
if i do it now before going to bed likely something will go wrong

thx

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