FFmpeg Release Plan: Difference between revisions
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* HE AAC v1 | * HE AAC v1 | ||
* LATM demuxing support | * LATM demuxing support | ||
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==Release Criteria== | ==Release Criteria== | ||
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==Rationale for releases== | ==Rationale for releases== | ||
* Provide endorsed snapshots for external software developers to develop against | * Provide endorsed snapshots for external software developers to develop against | ||
* Avoid | * Avoid situation where external software developers using SVN head when head has transient limitations. | ||
* Discourage external software developers using ancient snapshots that we don't support. | * Discourage external software developers using ancient snapshots that we don't support. | ||
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* Create tarball | * Create tarball | ||
* Checksums? | * Checksums? | ||
** md5sum ffmpeg-0.6.tar.bz2 > ffmpeg-0.6.tar.bz2.md5 | |||
** sha1sum ffmpeg-0.6.tar.bz2 > ffmpeg-0.6.tar.bz2.sha | |||
* Upload to ffmpeg.org | * Upload to ffmpeg.org | ||
* Update website | * Update website |
Revision as of 06:51, 2 March 2010
Ideas and suggestions concerning FFmpeg software releases.
Things that need doing
- Fix SVQ3 regression test?
- Approximately 95% test coverage in FATE.
- AAC Conformance sweep
- Make sure API/ABI changelog is up-to-date
Release 0.6 "Works with HTML5"
Pending features that would be nice to have in 0.6
- HE AAC v1
- LATM demuxing support
- Theora speedup work
Release Criteria
- make test passes.
- FATE test coverage passes for all platforms of interest.
- All 'important' bugs reported in roundup fixed/closed.
- Except 46, 127 and possibly 192 and 452 --Ce 05:36, 3 February 2010 (EST)
- And NetBSD status? https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/roundup/ffmpeg/issue886
- No half-implemented functionality that may break existing user apps.
- Endurance/memleak testing on film-length files.
Rationale for releases
- Provide endorsed snapshots for external software developers to develop against
- Avoid situation where external software developers using SVN head when head has transient limitations.
- Discourage external software developers using ancient snapshots that we don't support.
Release Process
- Create a branch in Subversion.
- Replace version.sh by something that hardcodes 0.6.
- svn export svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/tags/0.6/ ffmpeg-0.6
- tar -cvjf ffmpeg-0.6.tar.bz2 ffmpeg-0.6
- Get source code
- Create tarball
- Checksums?
- md5sum ffmpeg-0.6.tar.bz2 > ffmpeg-0.6.tar.bz2.md5
- sha1sum ffmpeg-0.6.tar.bz2 > ffmpeg-0.6.tar.bz2.sha
- Upload to ffmpeg.org
- Update website
- Who needs to be notified?
- Major dependent projects, major distribution package maintainers --Rathann 09:43, 29 January 2009 (EST)