[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: Advocating periodic releases

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 03:17:43PM +0200, Ulrich von Zadow wrote:
> Dana Hudes wrote:
> > Tim Allen wrote:
> >> Dana Hudes wrote:
> >>> I am willing to give a go at project managing ffmpeg and doing
> >>> releases. Somewhere along the way, I hope to also be able to make
> >>> Solaris SPARC (sorry, I don't have any x86 Solaris systems) packages
> >>> available. Part of the release thing is not only making sure that the
> >>> thing builds and passes its regression tests but I'd really
> >>> appreciate help on the QA side in assessing the adequacy of the
> >>> tests. I can, I think, get some automated code-coverage metrics
> >>> measuring tools going (if this were Perl, I'd know exactly where to
> >>> go for them but its been a while since I did such on C code).
> >>
> >> Excellent. I hope you have thick skin, because while the contributors
> >> to this project may not have decided to spend their time on release
> >> management, you can be sure they have firm ideas on the way it should
> >> be done properly and will let you know if you don't meet their
> >> expectations :-).
> > I have a fairly extensive background in commercial software and software
> > engineering. I know what needs to be done. The trick is to balance
> > between defect repair and new features. People much prefer to write new
> > stuff. If they have to touch old stuff they like to rewrite it.
> >>
> >>
> >>> I think we need a separate discussion list for the release / test
> >>> issues so that interested parties are not flooded with discussions of
> >>> patches. I would ask that any developer contributing actual code
> >>> participate in the release discussion somewhat.
> >>>
> >>> As for the vehicle for all this, sourceforge would seem the right place.
> >>
> >> That choice is bound to be controversial - the project left
> >> sourceforge some time ago due to dissatisfaction with the quality of
> >> its facilities. I would have thought there would be room within the
> >> existing mplayerhq infrastructure for this.
> > I don't have any particular connection to mplayerhq. I would rather try
> > to use some separate facility. I don't know what the problem was with
> > sourceforge. 
> 
> Given that the ffmpeg project doesn't seem to be interested in releases,

no, we lack someone doing releases ...


> I can understand the desire to be independent of the ffmpeg
> infrastructure. However, sourceforge has had serious stability and speed

ffmpeg releases will be released primarely on mplayerhq and will live
as branches in svn (or maybe some more advanced version control system 
at some point in the future)

idependant releases done outside of our control and our quality standards
are perfectly ok but they are well ... independant and not ffmpeg releases

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