On 8/24/2016 3:11 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 08/24/2016 11:54 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: >> Hi! >> >> 2016-08-24 18:51 GMT+02:00 Orion Poplawski <or...@cora.nwra.com>: >>> Would the ffmpeg developers be willing treat any particular release as a >>> long-term-support release and try to do security updates for it? >> >> Could you define "long-term"? >> >> Carl Eugen > > Well, EL7 itself will be around for a long time (till 2024), but we don't > expect any open-source project to have support for that long. But something in > the 2-3 year range would be very helpful.
Development of FFmpeg is fast and the codebase changes a lot in a years time, meaning backporting fixes to old releases becomes a hassle the more time passes, so usually only the most recent four or five releases are actively maintained. Important/critical security fixes however are usually backported to almost every affected branch even if not actively maintained. In any case, maintainers for old and even more recent releases to take care of bug and security fixes backporting are always welcome. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
