One year since last update on 0.10

[dv]

> IMO, prolonged active support on 0.10 will only add confusion and
> serve to poor overall quality of the code base: I've had a number of
> meetings on people bent on using 0.10. As a result, this drains
> resources on the 1.0 development because patches and work needs to be
> backported, fixes need to be done on old code: an overall reinforcing
> effect.
>
> The cut should be clean: 0.10 is dead; long live 1.0
>
> The more momentum in 1.0 there is, the better the quality is and
> rendering the 0.10 release question void.
>
> /my 2c
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While I support this, keep in mind that there are big software packages 
which are still tied to 0.10. One example is the GStreamer backend in 
WebKit. Even newest toolkits like Qt5, which integrate WebKit, are still 
using 0.10. In addition, many hardware decoding plugins are written for 
0.10, not 1.0.

I think pushing WebKit and Qt5 to use 1.0 instead of 0.10 would help 
considerably. As for the hw plugins, the biggest names I can think of 
are TI (with their CodecEngine) and Freescale with their VPUs. I also 
know of Marvell's vMeta, but do not know how common these are. 
Fortunately, many of these have their GStreamer wrappers opensourced, so 
a rewrite without involving them is possible.