[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg 7.0 blocking issues

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 at 14:00, James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/3/2024 4:35 AM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> >
> > n Sat, 2 Mar 2024, at 23:55, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 08:22:41PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >>> Hi all
> >>>
> >>> As it was a little difficult for me to not loose track of what is
> >>> blocking a release. I suggest that for all release blocking issues
> >>> open a ticket and set Blocking to 7.0
> >>> that way this:
> >>> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/query?blocking=~7.0
> >>>
> >>> or for the ones not closed:
> >>>
> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/query?status=new&status=open&status=reopened&blocking=~7.0
> >>>
> >>> will list all blocking issues
> >>>
> >>> Ive added one, for testing that, i intend to add more if i see
> something
> >>>
> >>> What is blocking? (IMHO)
> >>> * regressions (unless its non possible to fix before release)
> >>> * crashes
> >>> * security issues
> >>> * data loss
> >>> * privacy issues
> >>> * anything the commuity agrees should be in the release
> >>
> >> We still have 3 blocking issues on trac
> >>
> >> do people want me to wait or ignore them and branch ?
> >
> > I think you can branch soon.
> > However, those 3 bugs are quite important, tbh.
>
> The bump and the AVOption changes were already applied, so IMO we can
> branch.
> The two remaining issues should not be blocking as they can be
> backported to 7.0 in a point release.
>

VVC experimental flag is blocking.

Kieran