[vlc-devel] VLC 3.0.18 release will be tagged soon

[David Fuhrmann]

> Am 22.08.2022 um 10:06 schrieb Steve Lhomme <robux4 at ycbcr.xyz>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 2022-08-20 9:01, David Fuhrmann wrote:
>> Dear VideoLAN community,
>> We would like to do the 3.0.18 release soon, and we would like to try out an improved release process this time:
>> - First, we will tag 3.0.18-rc and build and publish all release artifacts for testing for the whole community (on download.videolan.org/testing/ <http://download.videolan.org/testing/>)
>> - We will give 1-2 weeks for concentrated testing. Help from everyone is very welcome here, please use the published artifacts to find out whether we have any serious regressions or urgent bugs which need to be fixed before the final release
>> - The final release will be tagged as 3.0.18
>> After some discussion with Hugo and j-b, we would like to propose the following timeline:
>> - 3.0.18-rc tag: Monday August 22nd (next week)
>> - 3.0.18 tag: Wednesday August 31st (1,5 weeks later)
>> Would this timeline be fine for everyone who is affected?
>> I would like to propose a more stringent approach on the timeline for the releases from now on:
>> In case of some serious issues which might delay the planned dates, I kindly ask to be transparent about it and discuss it here on this mail thread, on this very mailing list. Please always provide a clear and concrete explanation what is blocking the release, including a link to a bug ticket or open merge request which still needs to go in. If we see no veto from anyone, the tag shall happen as planned above.
> 
> I would like to get the dvdread and dvdnav patches merged as DVD playback is broken in Windows UCRT builds (using llvm-mingw). It was always broken so it may not be a blocker. But since there won't be a release in a while and this patch is almost ready...
> 
> This one is pending for 3.0
> https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/merge_requests/2417
> 
> And we will need this one in 3.0 once it's merged
> https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/merge_requests/2416

Hi Steve, thanks for the note. Would be cool if you can prepare the backport to 3.0.x branch, and try to organize some reviews tomorrow.

I will tag the -rc version tomorrow evening then and start the builds. I will merge what is still open for 3.0.x until then.

BR. David