[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/6] lavf: add an AVClass to AVStream on next major bump

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 5:47 PM Anton Khirnov <anton at khirnov.net> wrote:
>
> Quoting James Almer (2021-11-12 17:36:58)
> > On 11/12/2021 1:32 PM, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> > > Also add a function to retrieve that class, analogously to
> > > avformat_get_class().
> > >
> > > This will be useful for adding an AVOption for dispositions.
> >
> > While it's true that quite a few months have passed since the bump, we
> > haven't made a release just yet that would effectively freeze in practice.
> > If this change brings some immediate benefits, we could consider just
> > adding it now instead.
>
> It has been over half a year and the instability periods is supposed to
> be brief. I would prefer to maintain the convention that git master is
> kept stable for most of the time.
>

I agree with that. The supposed "instability period" after this bump
was ridiculous. IMO that period should be a day or so. Prepare patches
before, in a branch or another repo, push after bump, all done.

- Hendrik