[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]download: Fix the release link

Michael Niedermayer michael at niedermayer.cc
Fri Mar 29 19:39:44 EET 2019


On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 01:16:41AM +0100, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> 2019-03-28 20:52 GMT+01:00, Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>:
> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 06:47:52PM +0100, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> >> 2019-03-28 18:31 GMT+01:00, Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>:
> >> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 12:00:39PM +0100, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> >>
> >> >> -      <small>ffmpeg-4.1.2.tar.bz2</small>
> >> >> +      <small>ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2</small>
> >> >
> >> > Iam not sure if this is wise. This would increase the burden
> >> > for security fixes because now any fix to a bug in no release
> >> > can be ignored. But if distros would ship random master
> >> > checkouts everything even if its fixed an hour later could
> >> > be relevant to some distribution
> >>
> >> This link will not affect any distribution, only users who need a
> >> quick download (and report an issue afterwards).
> >
> > maybe there should be a button for downloading the latest release
> > and the latest snapshot side by side
> 
> > and certainly i see your point but users downloading the latest snapshot
> > still will not have the latest when they report a bug. So iam not
> > sure this would actually help. Many if not most people still would
> > have to go and re-download
> 
> After working on FFmpeg for some time I would say
> users who use a release very often miss that an issue
> was already fixed, users with a recent snapshots
> are less likely in this situation.
> 
> > also if release and snapshot differ much its probably time for a new
> > major release ...
> > not saying that makes your argument less relevant but more saying
> > that i think we should probably make a new major release ...
> 

> Given the number of open current regressions, I would
> prefer if we fixed at least some of them before
> making a release...

yes, i prefer that as well and bugs should be fixed independant of
there being a release ...
and i would suggest we consider setting up some bug bounties for these
151 ? regressions or a subset of them. This may help to draw more
interrest towards them ...


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