[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] 7.0 blocking issues

[James Almer]

On 3/25/2024 6:10 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 09:20:25PM +0100, Lynne wrote:
>> Mar 25, 2024, 14:50 by ffmpeg at haasn.xyz:
>>
>>> On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 07:20:56 +0100 "Jean-Baptiste Kempf" <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, at 01:03, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>>>> Should i wait till all issues marked as blocking 7.0 on trac are fixed
>>>>> before branching ?
>>>>
>>>> I think you should branch now.
>>>> And get things fixed in the 7.0 branch.
>>>>
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> This is a big change and some breakage is inevitable. Most bugs will
>>> probably only be found once the software is released and deployed.
>>>
>>> When a big milestone gets bogged down by months (if not years) of
>>> "blocking bugs", my understanding is that it will simply never get
>>> released, and users might as well resort to using git master / nightly
>>> builds at that point.
>>>
>>> (Any possible allusion to *other* big open source software projects is
>>> purely coincidental)
>>>
>>
>> +1, we should branch so we can unblock master from receiving
> 
> ok, ill make the branch within the next 24h probably
> 
> We do have several open security issues still though (some have patches on the ML)
> 
> I still have to check if ossfuzz is hiding any issues in unrelated tickets
> (ossfuzz did that often previously and this can unveil surprises)
> 
> Also iam behind with backporting security fixes to release branches,
> (this may seem unrelated but it isnt because i always try to backport
>   each of my security fixes to all branches we still maintain at the same time,
>   so id like to get the other branches uptodate with backports to keep backports
>   in sync with a new 7.0)
> 
> All in all, iam not sure I will manage to release 7.0 in 7 days

No rush for the release, but the branch has to happen sooner rather than 
later.

> 
> but ill do the branch and we will see.
> 
> thx
> 
> 
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