[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Releases

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 11:19:48PM +0200, Arpi 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 Otherwise everyone will use very outdated ffmpeg&libav*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?
> > 
> > iam undecided what is best but i think that releases rarer than once every
> > 3 month are too rare
> > 
> > of course we wouldnt do a release if we know of a major issue in svn at the
> > time ...
> 
> I absolutely agree! (not that it matters...)

it does matter, you have alot of experience
<off topic>
and besides i think many people would be happy if you returned to mplayer
development :)
</off topic>


> 
> The new mplayer 1.0rc3 release was a horrible joke, from a more than
> 1 year old svn branch... everyone is downloading the "new" version now...

why does this remind me of ffmpeg 0.5.*


> 
> At least after every important fix or new feature there should be a
> new release.

agree

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