[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg 7.0 blocking issues

[Lynne]

Jan 24, 2024, 14:24 by anton at khirnov.net:

> Quoting Lynne (2024-01-24 14:14:00)
>
>> Jan 24, 2024, 13:30 by anton at khirnov.net:
>> >> I have started on everything, and two things are finished but need polish,
>> >> one is difficult and needs debugging while the other is more difficult.
>> >>
>> >> And with that release rate attitude, how do you think we can go to our one
>> >> release every few months promise?
>> >>
>> >
>> > I don't understand what you mean by this.
>> >
>>
>> You mentioned half a year, but we planned to make a release every
>> two months under the new release model from 2 years ago.
>>
>
> I am not aware of such plans, and this sounds unfeasible to me. We
> can barely follow the twice-per-year schedule.
>

https://ffmpeg.org//index.html#news

> February 28th, 2023, FFmpeg 6.0 "Von Neumann"> Another release-specific change is that deprecated APIs will be removed after 3    releases, upon the > next major bump.    This means that releases will be done more often and will be more organized.

It's in the original proposal from 2 years ago.
Releases will be much easier if we just do releases more often.