[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 00/26] Major library version bump

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 8:33 PM Marvin Scholz <epirat07 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Alternatively, we could just not have an instability period at all.
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> Not having any instability period at all seems like a bad idea.
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Actually that sounds like the best idea. You would just have to
prepare the bump in a branch and all unstable changes ready to merge
in an instant.
Miss it? Tough. Having months long periods so people can get their
stuff sorted is way too long. Ideally it should be prepared ahead of
time and only a "soft instability" period of maybe two weeks reserved
for bug fixes (don't want to sit on issues for ever), rather then big
changes or new features.

- Hendrik