One year since last update on 0.10

[Suresh Kumar SHUKLA]

> > For the existing solutions that are based on 0.10, a new tag can go as
> > stability update. It will get tested widely as part of distros.
> >
> > I understand the focus on 1.0, so this old branch has to avoid new
> > features. Maybe avoid backporting too.
> >
> > What do you say?
> 
> It's not that easy. Actually creating this stability-0.10 branch and deciding
> which patches can go in there and which not, which patches would
> additionally need to be backported (which alone isn't really trivial
> sometimes, even for bugfixes) from 1.0 is a lot of work. The full effects of
> some of the changes are not easy to understand and in the end a lot of
> testing for regressions would be necessary.
> 
> Apart from that it would be necessary to continue to maintain this
> stability-0.10 branch and provide support and bugfixes for it.
> 
> And most important, nobody of the GStreamer team has motivation or time
> to do all this in their spare time and prefer to spend their spare time with 1.0
> instead.
> 
> Just let 0.10 die.
> 
> 
> You were speaking about the Fedora test team earlier. What exactly are they
> waiting for? To my knowledge most software in Fedora is now ported to 1.0.

Before starting discussion here, I first checked with fedora test team, when do they pull 0.10 stability patches. 
They do it after a formal release from this team. So not waiting in real sense.

Thanks for your time to explain the effort needed. It's time to move on.

Regards,
Suresh