[MPlayer-dev-eng] release alongside FFmpeg

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 01:03:29PM +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> 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

Yes.  Once again we will not be able to make everyone happy.  And there
will be downsides.  For the thing that has no drawbacks awaits creation
still.

But we know what it's like.  We have made releases in the past.
We lived to tell the tale then, we shall now.

Diego