[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] How to become release maintainer

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 10:47:56AM -0300, James Almer wrote:
> On 8/5/2019 10:35 AM, Reto Kromer wrote:
> > James Almer wrote:
> > 
> >>>> master nb_commits % 1500 == 0.
> > 
> >> And if you make the cut as strict as you suggest, you'll surely
> >> get broken releases.
> > 
> > I fully agree that such an orthodoxy would result in broken
> > releases.
> > 
> > Seen this from a user of releases perspective, a good compromise
> > between availability of new features and deployment of a new
> > version would be a few months, such as one release per season.
> > Hope this input is useful for the discussion.
> > 
> > Best regards, Reto
> 
> That is the current schedule. It used to be one every three months, give
> or take a month, then changed to six months once that stopped being true.
> The issue is that 4.2 is being delayed way too much, fast approaching a
> year now, apparently because Michael (Who handles releases) is dealing
> with a constant influx of new issues reported by fuzzers, most of which
> he considers a security concern.

with releases every 3 months several people complained that there are
too many releases. 

I agree that 4.2 is delayed too much, ill make that release soon, just
wanted to give the latest sec fixes a ~day on the ML for reviews.

It does seem judging from the unhappyness with a 3months shedule and
the now unhappyness with a almost 9? month that 6 month is the sweet spot.
So ill aim towards maybe 5months in the future and with unexpected delays
we will then achieve a 6 months release cycle.

About paul doing the releases, i think the work on codecs and filters
and all the surroundings that he is doing currently is more valuable.

I appologize for the 4.2 release being late

Thanks

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