[FFmpeg-cvslog] [ffmpeg.org]: r455 - trunk/src/download

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Sun Jun 13 20:26:26 CEST 2010


On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:36:12AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 03:41:39 (CEST), Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 03:23:14PM +0200, diego wrote:
> >> Author: diego
> >> Date: Fri Jun 11 15:23:13 2010
> >> New Revision: 455
> >> 
> >> Log:
> >> Clarify how major releases and point releases work in FFmpeg.
> > [...]
> >> +
> >> +<p>
> >> +0.5.2 appeared on 2010-05-25. It is the latest point release from the 0.5
> >> +release branch cut on 2009-03-02.
> >> +</p>
> >
> > this is better still id prefer to have a clear statement that says that users
> > should use svn and that only svn is supported by us
> 
> I really guess this is more than clear already. Or are you spammed by
> support requests for the 0.5 release? I rather expect those user to to
> report their bugs to the respective distro maintainers that know whom to
> contact.
> 
> ffmpeg-user@ doesn't seem to get too much spammed by support requests, a
> quick grep over the subjects gives me about 30 of postings (including
> answers!) with 0.5 in the subject.

My concern was about misinforming users (and i corrected this)
I feel that we have a moral obligation to tell our users about known or
expected problems in a release.

my concern was not about the time or annoyance users cause us due to them
being misinformed or rather poorly informed about the release by us


> 
> > also i would prefer a statement that says that this code is outdated by a year
> > and not to list dates which the reader has to compare to come to this
> > conclusion
> 
> I think the dates are really helpful to come to this conclusion, please
> leave them in place.

ok

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