[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Releases

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 05:18:29PM -0700, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:29:07PM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> >> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni <at> gmx.at> writes:
> >>
> >> > 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 Otherwise everyone will use very outdated ffmpeg&libav*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
> >>
> >> (As said before) I strongly support the current daily releases, everything else
> >> we have seen so far was not such a good idea.
> >
> > What was the problem exactly?
> >
> > Note that the people taking part in this discussion are *not* the
> > target audience for releases. ?Thus it's hardly surprising that
> > you do not find them to your liking.
> 
> A release system has to be liked by the developers as well as the
> users or else it is useless.

Why do people who do not use releases have to like releases.
I don't see how this could follow...

Diego