[FFmpeg-devel] release

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:07:24AM +0000, Robert Swain wrote:
> 2009/1/29 Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx>:
> > Jai Menon wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx> wrote:
> >>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >>>> Let's get the two biggest bikeshed topics out of the way right now:
> >>>>
> >>>> - release date: weekend 2009-02-21/22
> >>>> - release name: 0.5
> >>>>
> >>>> There, progress, it feels so great...
> >>> Awesome. No argument here. Does anyone have a reason why we shouldn't go
> >>> with 0.5 for a release? If you do... I don't really care. :) Let's go
> >>> with 0.5.
> >>>
> >>> BTW, one more pressing matter: How do we actually go about making the
> >>> release?
> >>
> >> I have another question to add to this. Is there some sort of "feature
> >> freeze" or something?
> >> Or do we just create a release branch and continue adding new stuff to
> >> svn head (and porting
> >> bugfixes to the release branch etc...) ?
> >> Maybe somebody who knows about this could give a detailed overview of
> >> what makes up the release process.
> >
> > That's a good question. I don't think anyone has any major features
> > slated to go in before release. If they do, then we can always kindly
> > ask them to hold the features until after mid-February.
> 
> What about Aurel's metadata stuff? As I recall, that's a work in
> progress and isn't intended to be used yet.

Urge Aurelien to finish it.  Otherwise we indeed need to decide what to
do about it.  Aurel?

Diego