[vlc-devel] VLC 1.0.0-pre3? RC1?

[Laurent Aimar]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> I know I am not the release manager, but we've done quite some work this
> week( RTSP, Shoutcast & DVB fixed on WIndows, around 30 bugs closed ).
> 
> I think VLC 1.0.0 is quite usable, compared to 0.9.x, and 1.0 bugs
> milestone has 207 closed tickets.
 I agree.
> 
> People (and I) have moved important issues (regressions for most of
> them) to the VLC 1.0.0-rc1 milestone:
> http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&group=status&milestone=1.0.0-rc1
> 
> I believe most of "1.0 bugs" bugs remaining are not blockers, but I may
> mistake. If you have bugs that you think MUST be fixed before release
> and you ARE a developer, please move them to 1.0.0-rc1.
> 
> 
> So, now the big question, what do we do?
> 
> Do we make a vlc 1.0.0-pre3 and wait for the bugs mentionned above to be
> clsoed?
> Do we start a VLC 1.0.0-rc1 and go on with rcs until most bugs are
> closed?
> And the next big question:
> When do we branch for 1.1 (or whatever 1.x we decide)?

 I think we could go for a -rc1 with real freeze (only bug fixes), no idea
for how long (but 1 week seems ok).
 We could then branch 1.0. We have quite a lot of postponed patches that are
slowly being forgotten.

-- 
fenrir