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[68.41.54.207]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id cs10-20020a056638470a00b0039d756fb908sm5283454jab.40.2023.01.20.13.23.24 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:23:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2f73f0fc-0e4c-edb8-649c-5446cc4c4ec0@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 16:23:23 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.6.1 Content-Language: en-US-large To: ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org References: <20230116133840.512-1-jamrial@gmail.com> <167407008302.4503.12911207010634660934@lain.khirnov.net> From: Leo Izen In-Reply-To: <167407008302.4503.12911207010634660934@lain.khirnov.net> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 00/26] Major library version bump X-BeenThere: ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: FFmpeg development discussions and patches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Errors-To: ffmpeg-devel-bounces@ffmpeg.org Sender: "ffmpeg-devel" Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: On 1/18/23 14:28, Anton Khirnov wrote: > Quoting James Almer (2023-01-16 14:38:14) >> It's been a while since the last bump, so it's time to do some cleaning and >> remove deprecated APIs. This will also give us an "Open ABI season" in which we >> can do breaking changes (like changing public struct offsets, public enum >> values, adding fields to structs that have their size tied to the ABI, etc) for >> a few weeks. > > Last time this open season lasted something like half a year and only > ended when I arbitrarily said it did. > > So I'd suggest to decide right now how long will the instability period > last (6 weeks should be enough for everybody) and write the end date at > the top of doc/APIchanges. > > Another thing I'm not entirely happy about is versioning during the bump > and instability. While the remove-then-bump approach does make bisection > easier, it also creates commits that lie about their ABI version. > If the bump comes before the resulting removals, then wouldn't the removals strictly speaking exist inside the instability period as they immediately follow a version bump? This sounds like it keeps our promise. - Leo Izen _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-request@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".