Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] 7.0 blocking issues

[Lynne <dev@lynne.ee>]

Mar 25, 2024, 14:50 by ffmpeg@haasn.xyz:

> On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 07:20:56 +0100 "Jean-Baptiste Kempf" <jb@videolan.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, at 01:03, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> > Should i wait till all issues marked as blocking 7.0 on trac are fixed
>> > before branching ?
>>
>> I think you should branch now.
>> And get things fixed in the 7.0 branch.
>>
>
> +1
>
> This is a big change and some breakage is inevitable. Most bugs will
> probably only be found once the software is released and deployed.
>
> When a big milestone gets bogged down by months (if not years) of
> "blocking bugs", my understanding is that it will simply never get
> released, and users might as well resort to using git master / nightly
> builds at that point.
>
> (Any possible allusion to *other* big open source software projects is
> purely coincidental)
>

+1, we should branch so we can unblock master from receiving
large patchsets and release next week
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