[vlc-devel] About the 1.0.0 release

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Hello folks,

VLC 1.0.0 release is now over. Websites are now back to normal.
Here are just a few thoughts on it.

- We have done around 3,46Million downloads in the first 72hours
  after the release showed up on the website.
- Around half of those people went through www.videolan.org

- The website hold and did not suffer from shortage or downtime. This is
  mostly because of the modification of the website and the time of the
  release.
  On average people, got 3 files from apache ( /index.html, favicon.ico
  and mirror-geo.php) on ganesh and images from lighttpd from sirius.

- 1.0.0 has hit most of the geeky websites quite correctly and in a timely
  manner. Sure, we helped them, but this is quite nice.

- Donations went quite up, reaching a few thousands of euro-dollars. It is
  not much, but is quite correct compared to how much we have received since
  the creation of Paypal account in 2001.

- Reactions and review were quite good.


On the technical side, a lot of bugs have been fixed, and I know I have
slowed a bit the release, but I think this was worth it, especially with
this symbolic number. But I hope we will never have to be back in the
state of the 0.9.x version, and we will not have to deal with such a long time after freeze.

Reading the various forums, there are a few issues left, one being very
worrying (a crash on avcodec on WMV playback) and a few ones not that
important (unseekable FLVs, crash in Qt, etc...)

I would like to thank everyone for this release.

Best Regards,


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-- 
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
http://www.jbkempf.com/