[MPlayer-dev-eng] The path to RC2

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 02 November 2006 at 21:53, Roberto Togni wrote:
[...]
> Do we want a fork after the (supposed) last rc, with only fixes going
> in? Or are we going to do 1.0 from trunk?
> 
> 
> Imo the main "problem" is not 1.0 itself, but what is coming after
> it. Are we going to maintain it? How? How long? Who's going to do it? As
> soon as trunk starts diverging from 1.0, backporting fixes will get
> time consuming.

No, we're not.

> And we also should keep some big feature for post-1.0, to make users
> (and hopefully distributions too) go back to svn version.

I think we've already agreed that we won't treat 1.0 as some big milestone,
it's just another release, just like preX and rcX, even if their naming was
inconsistent with their purpose.

Regards,
R.

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