[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Releases

[Måns Rullgård]

Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> writes:

> On date Tuesday 2010-06-15 17:02:20 +0200, Aurelien Jacobs encoded:
>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:24:09PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:30:17 (CEST), Luca Barbato wrote:
>> > 
>> > > On 06/13/2010 08:26 PM, Alex Converse wrote:
>> > >> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Luca Barbato <lu_zero at gentoo.org> wrote:
>> > >>> On 5/30/10 11:15 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> Hi
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> I think we should do releases more often than we did historically or
>> > >>>> not at all. Otherwise everyone will use very outdated ffmpeg&libav*
>> > >>>> What do you think?
>> > >>>> each svn revission is a release
>> > >>>> one release per day
>> > >>>> one release per week
>> > >>>> one release per month
>> > >>>> one release every 3 month
>> > >>>> ?
>> > >>>> comments?
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Well we could provide a pointer to automated snapshots from
>> > >>> the download page if that makes you think that will help
>> > >>> people not used to fetch from svn.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> gitweb already provides that feature e.g.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> http://git.ffmpeg.org/?p=ffmpeg;a=snapshot;sf=tgz
>> > >>>
>> > >> 
>> > >> That doesn't include libswscale.
>> > >
>> > > let's switch to git and merge libswscale then...
>> > 
>> > +1
>> 
>> +1
>
> We already agreed on the fact that we want to switch to git.  The
> problem is just *when* (Michael requested to do it after the GSoC, so
> I presume it will be after the 24 of August), and *who* (Mans
> volunteered to do it if I'm not wrong).

Yes, I will do the required work.

> As for me I'd prefer to do it as soon as possible (e.g. in a month or
> so), most devs and soc students seem to be working with git already.

The gsoc students shouldn't be committing to the main repo anyway, so
it doesn't make much difference for them.  Those using git will
benefit from a switch, and those on svn won't be harmed since svn
can't do cross-repo merges anyway.

-- 
M?ns Rullg?rd
mans at mansr.com