[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Releases

[Alex Converse]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Jason Garrett-Glaser
<darkshikari at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > 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 Otherwise everyone will use very outdated ffmpeg&libav*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...
>
> BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO MAKE THE RELEASE, obviously. ?What, do you think
> releases just come out of thin air? No, developers have to make them.
>
> If the developers don't like the release schedule, how the hell will
> you make them stick to it or be involved at all?
>

You only need one or two developers working on release stuff. There
isn't even a freeze anymore. Most developers don't even need to be
aware of the release.