On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 at 21:10, Michael Niedermayer <mich...@niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 09:20:25PM +0100, Lynne wrote: > > Mar 25, 2024, 14:50 by ffm...@haasn.xyz: > > > > > On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 07:20:56 +0100 "Jean-Baptiste Kempf" < > j...@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 > > ok, ill make the branch within the next 24h probably > > We do have several open security issues still though (some have patches on > the ML) > > I still have to check if ossfuzz is hiding any issues in unrelated tickets > (ossfuzz did that often previously and this can unveil surprises) > > Also iam behind with backporting security fixes to release branches, > (this may seem unrelated but it isnt because i always try to backport > each of my security fixes to all branches we still maintain at the same > time, > so id like to get the other branches uptodate with backports to keep > backports > in sync with a new 7.0) > Have you considered making a particular release an LTS so you don't have to backport to so many branches? Kieran _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
