On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Simeon Völkel <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hello Hannes,
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> thanks for pushing out the latest changes.
>
> If i remember correctly we have now merged nearly everything that was
> intended to be merged, except for one of Monty's alsa fixes, that caused
> serious playback problems for Hannes.
>
> So what do we still want to merge before releasing Cin2.1.5CV? (except for
> an update of the about page / version variable ;))
>
> Personally speaking I would prefer a release rather soon for the following
> reasons:
>
> 1. a "new version" should encourage distributions to build new packages
> which should decrease the time that has to be spend for answering "where
> can i get (the latest) packages for XY"
>
> 2. a "new version" should encourage users to look for "new (old) bugs",
> hopefully resulting in new tickets on bugs.cinelerra.org. Adding a new
> version there makes it easier to keep track of what is still an issue.
> (I'm aware that many old bugs aren't fixed yet, but we won't fix them all
> in finite time, so waiting for all bugs being fixed would prohibit the
> release of > 2.1 forever ;-))
>
> 3. a "new version" might encourage someone to contribute again some
> patches, as he/she sees that something is going on with cinelerra. (e.g.
> gentoo's patches weren't forwarded to our ML at some point as nothing 
> happened)
>
> 4. releasing other bugfix releases (e.g. 2.1.6) should become "easier" to
> do when a first step is done.
>
> Hannes, Monty, Einar, what do you think? (as you've contributed most of the
> new patches)
>
I agree with all your points.

Meanwhile I found some more simple bugfixes in my tree:

commit:7f217eaa516881840a9d80549d6aedce5e012da3
Tue, 1 Jun 2010 13:19:29 +0000 (16:19 +0300)
Changed return type of Thread:get_tid()

commit:443a5c8c3565304ea542430a6eba9f76c619bc96
Tue, 9 Mar 2010 20:53:17 +0000 (22:53 +0200)
Fix mmap errorcode

commit:c59748bc756686d5bd9f51e2374c108e9ef28d8e
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:03:07 +0000 (21:03 +0200)
Fixed v4l2 detetection

These may be included too. Quite formal fixes.

Einar

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