[gst-devel] current CVS

[David Schleef]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:33:55PM +0100, Ronald Bultje wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> > the final release candidate for 0.8.0 is out the door.  How do we treat
> > CVS now ? Should it be considered frozen until 0.8.0 is out ? Should
> > patches be sent to the list first ? What do you guys think ?
> 
> For now, leave it as it is. Let's keep close track of each committed patch
> through gst-cvs, but let's not freeze it. That isn't productive. If you
> have doubts, just ask the person that committed. We can always revert.

AOL.

> > Also, it's getting time to discuss how to proceed after the release of
> > 0.8.0.  Anyone want to shoot first ?
> 
> Don't branch off like for 0.6.x, at least not now. I want to try and keep
> Dave/Benjamin aboard for maintainance for a while longer. Apart from that,
> I don't care much. ABI stability is of course an absolute requirement.

Hehe.

IMO, we should not start a 0.9 branch soon.  However, I would like
people to start working on 0.9 core projects as soon as possible,
probably in individual branches (like how caps was done), or with
something like arch.  Assuming the projects are API/ABI compatible,
they could be merged at a later time.

I'd like to see us have another stable release timed with GNOME 2.8.
It was clear from this release process that core development needs
to be moved up a little bit in the schedule.  Ideally, on March 22,
we'd start working on the core in order to get it ready by mid-June,
so applications can settle down in time for September.

Since we need to spend a bit more time polishing 0.8, we'll need to
cut the core development time in the next cycle.  This means that
each of us needs to start planning a core project, and commit to doing
it on time.  I'd even suggest that 0.10 should be released up to a
month early, so we have additional time in the 0.12 cycle to tackle
some of the harder core problems.



dave...