[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg 1.0

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On 9/30/12, Stefano Sabatini <stefasab at gmail.com> wrote:
> On date Friday 2012-09-28 04:24:03 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
>> Hi
>>
>> FFmpeg 1.0 release uploaded & download page updated, ill update the
>> front page after a bit of sleep
>>
>> iam planing to release 1.0.1 in 2 weeks, if you want some changes in
>> it, create a branch based on the release/1.0 branch in your public git
>> repo and cherry pick everything you want in the release
>> in that branch. than just ask me to merge it.
>>
>> thanks
>
> BTW, I'd propose to follow a more linear approach for releases
> numbering, and just use two version numbers major.minor and discard
> micro.
>
> For example we could next release a branch 2, with the tags 2.0, 2.1,
> etc.
>
> This should also clarify things for users.
> --

So following the Chrome/Firefox example,
instead of the kernel version scheme.

IMHO, the switch would be more confusing for the users.