From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ffbox0-bg.mplayerhq.hu (ffbox0-bg.ffmpeg.org [79.124.17.100]) by master.gitmailbox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 487284B390 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2024 15:04:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.1.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ffbox0-bg.mplayerhq.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CF2B68D462; Tue, 4 Jun 2024 18:04:13 +0300 (EEST) Received: from alt2.a-painless.mh.aa.net.uk (unknown [81.187.30.51]) by ffbox0-bg.mplayerhq.hu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4760468D3A1 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2024 18:04:07 +0300 (EEST) Received: from 0.c.a.4.e.5.3.2.5.8.5.6.7.e.1.c.0.5.8.0.9.1.8.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa ([2001:8b0:819:850:c1e7:6585:235e:4ac0] helo=andrews-2024-laptop.sayers) by painless-a.thn.aa.net.uk with smtp (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from ) id 1sEVhm-007COa-1S for ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org; Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:04:06 +0100 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 16:04:03 +0100 From: Andrew Sayers To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches Message-ID: References: <20240517134958.GQ6420@pb2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20240517134958.GQ6420@pb2> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] STF 2025 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-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: ffmpeg-devel-bounces@ffmpeg.org Sender: "ffmpeg-devel" Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 03:49:58PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > Hi all > > Before this is forgotten again, better start some dicsussion too early than too late Unless there's a better place to put these, I plan to reply to this message whenever I notice someone bring up something that seems relevant. Hopefully it will be a good reference if and when the time comes. Sebastian Ramacher recently said this in another thread[1]: > Maintainers and developers of reverse dependencies repeatedly ask for > upgrade guides that go beyond "use this function instead" This strikes me as an excellent bit of boring-but-important STF work. The bug reports in that e-mail make it relatively easy to quantify impact - measure the number of breakages in each revision, make a chart of numbers over time, agree a target number for next time. [1] https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2024-June/328852.html _______________________________________________ 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".