[vlc-devel] 0.9.10 and the future of 0.9.x branch

Rémi Denis-Courmont remi at remlab.net
Wed Jul 8 08:32:25 CEST 2009


On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 01:48:03 +0200, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org>
wrote:
> I have no interest in taking care of the 0.9-bugfix branch of VLC, and
> especially -infinity interest in making Windows versions for this
> branch.
> 
> Maybe some people are interested, maybe not. What should we do ?
> 
> I suggest that we tag a 0.9.10 release in the next days if needed in
> order to help the sources distribution, but not advertise it on the
> website for Mac and Windows.
> 
> Any thoughts? Any maintainer volunteering?

Well, I think making binaries for older branches is a waste of time.
Considering the level of success (nil) of "0.8.7", I feel that even making
source packages is a waste of time. In other words, I am not aware of any
single downstream that tracks our release on older branches.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont




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