[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Release 6.1

[Neal Gompa]

On Mon, Oct 9, 2023 at 1:42 PM Michael Niedermayer
<michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2023 at 05:37:42AM +0200, Lynne wrote:
> > Jul 6, 2023, 18:04 by dev at lynne.ee:
> >
> > > 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?
> > >
> >
> > Could we consider at least branching off 6.1?
>
> we can consider branching whenever theres a consensus to do so
> People are always quick in saying what they want in / done before
> releases/branching. But its rare that people later reply and say that an issue
> was resolved.
> This makes monitoring for what blockers remain painfull
> i think for the next release we should automate this
> because trac has a "Blocking" field and that could be set to 6.1
> for example and then one can just query trac for all open tickets
> that are blocking "6.1"
> Which would make it MUCH easier to know what is blocking it and would
> make it easier to know when all blockers are gone
> ATM one has to go over multiple threads and then figure out what people
> asked for to be done first and then find out if the things are still
> not done.
>

Sorry if I haven't chimed in about this. From my point of view, the
things I need in 6.1 have landed. So I'm fine with 6.1 being released
now.



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