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

[Lynne]

12 Nov 2021, 20:00 by h.leppkes at gmail.com:

> 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.
>

Once every 2 years is really pushing it IMO. Multimedia moves faster
than that.
I'd prefer once a year with a period of 2 months or so.