On 4/3/2026 12:25 PM, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
Hi JamesOn Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 10:29:20PM -0300, James Almer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:On 3/18/2026 9:32 PM, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:Hi James On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 10:21:30AM -0300, James Almer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:On 3/18/2026 10:16 AM, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:Hi everyone Release plan is 9.0 in June 2026 9.1 in September 2026Why so close to each other? Will there be enough changes in those threerelease early, release oftenmonths to justify a release and the extra backport work that would require in the long term? 9.0 between June and September is ok, but 9.1 should probably be closer to the end of the year.we have written "3 months" for the milestones about fixing security/fuzzer issues corresponding to the releases: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/SponsoringPrograms/STF/2025 and that resulted in March, June and September in the contract.Who signed this contract? Individuals, or an entity that represents the FFmpeg project?Theres a contract between SPI and STF and there are agreements between the FFmpeg developers and SPI/STF to do the work.
So technically it is individuals. But whatever, not going to fight against it.
And its what the FFmpeg project publically has on our wikiIf the former, what individuals agree to with outside parties should by no means condition how development is done...If you dont care about FFmpeg being funded and dont care about project members being able to participate in funded activities then yes you are on the right track but lets remember, i wanted to merge librempeg as my STF project. And people wanted me to instead do security fixes. So thats where this fix security issues and make release comes from you suggest i stop doing security fixes or releases ?
No, i just don't want our release schedule being tied to some contract we have to strictly fulfill. Some times we get a lot of changes in three months, other times Changelog barely gets a couple lines. If there's not enough to justify a release at a given date, then what's the point?
Like i said if theres consensus that a release should be done a month later i can suggest this to STF, but i cant flip flop back and forth and keep asking for changing the deadline as the communities preferrance shifts thx [...] _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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