[MPlayer-dev-eng] release alongside FFmpeg

[Nico Sabbi]

On Monday 02 February 2009 12:58:03 Georgi Petrov wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> 
wrote:
> > It's high time for a release, so why not release alongside
> > FFmpeg, i.e. on the very same day?
> >
> > Distros will love us for it, it will allow them to combine
> > MPlayer with the FFmpeg release package without ill effects.
> >
> > Here is the timeline:
> >
> > weekend 2009-02-07/08 freeze
> > weekend 2009-02-14/15 bug squashing
> > weekend 2009-02-21/22 release
> >
> > I think we could also join the FFmpeg bug squashing weekend on
> > IRC.
>
> Great idea! The last release was a year and 2 months ago. I'll try
> to submit and fix all the problems regarding my piece of work in
> MPlayer until 07/08.
>
> I don't know about the other areas in MPlayer, but if more people
> agree, the idea seems logical.

yes great idea, so people will report problems against the new 
release, we'll tell them to use a fresh svn update and over and over 
and over..........
It's the bad old endless story