[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]download: Fix the release link

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2019-03-28 20:52 GMT+01:00, Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 06:47:52PM +0100, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>> 2019-03-28 18:31 GMT+01:00, Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>:
>> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 12:00:39PM +0100, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>>
>> >> -      <small>ffmpeg-4.1.2.tar.bz2</small>
>> >> +      <small>ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2</small>
>> >
>> > Iam not sure if this is wise. This would increase the burden
>> > for security fixes because now any fix to a bug in no release
>> > can be ignored. But if distros would ship random master
>> > checkouts everything even if its fixed an hour later could
>> > be relevant to some distribution
>>
>> This link will not affect any distribution, only users who need a
>> quick download (and report an issue afterwards).
>
> maybe there should be a button for downloading the latest release
> and the latest snapshot side by side

> and certainly i see your point but users downloading the latest snapshot
> still will not have the latest when they report a bug. So iam not
> sure this would actually help. Many if not most people still would
> have to go and re-download

After working on FFmpeg for some time I would say
users who use a release very often miss that an issue
was already fixed, users with a recent snapshots
are less likely in this situation.

> also if release and snapshot differ much its probably time for a new
> major release ...
> not saying that makes your argument less relevant but more saying
> that i think we should probably make a new major release ...

Given the number of open current regressions, I would
prefer if we fixed at least some of them before
making a release...

I was annoyed about the top of the download page
for a very long time and only realized now that
apart from being misleading, it also created a
maintenance burden.

Carl Eugen