[FFmpeg-devel] 5.0 release

[Lynne]

31 Dec 2021, 17:52 by michael at niedermayer.cc:

> On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 12:55:14AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 05:44:42PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
>> > On Wed, 22 Dec 2021, at 15:05, James Almer wrote:
>> > > Is the December target to get into the feature freeze schedule from 
>> > > distros?
>> > 
>> > No, it was set by me, in order to get the distro freezes from January.
>> > 
>>
>> > We can miss the target a bit this year, and then make it better for 2022.
>>
>> as you seem to know the distro freeze shedules
>> can you clarify "a bit" ?
>>
>> iam asking just in case the channel patch doesnt make it before
>> so i know when its time to stop waiting for it
>>
>
> ok
> when do people want me to make the branch ?
> any preferrances ?
> should i do it now or continue waiting?
>

Not yet, mkver is still offline, we're waiting on him to give his
opinion on the dovi patchset. I think dovi is pretty important for
5.0, since it's gotten popular as streaming providers now use it.
He was online earlier this morning, but I forgot to ping him :P


> I saw on IRC some sugestions to make it at a past commit to keep some
> code out
>

Once its time, make it from git master, just revert 73f6cce936130ab
and 6b7e4de0dbc from the release branch.