{"id":959,"date":"2009-01-27T22:46:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T06:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=959"},"modified":"2009-01-27T22:46:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T06:46:42","slug":"gaining-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/gaining-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaining Momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t look now, but the idea of making a formal <a href=\"http:\/\/ffmpeg.org\/\">FFmpeg<\/a> release in the very near future is gaining traction over on the <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.mplayerhq.hu\/mailman\/listinfo\/ffmpeg-devel\">FFmpeg-devel list<\/a>. There is a determined and growing team of individuals committed to this goal in the near future. To that end, there is even a <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=FFmpeg_Release_Plan\">Wiki page listing the steps<\/a> that need to occur leading up to a release.<\/p>\n<p>There is some debate about what kind of release schedule we should commit to. Some take the stance that we should follow the model that <a href=\"http:\/\/winehq.org\/\">Wine<\/a> apparently follows by releasing every 2 weeks. Really, <em>every new weeks?<\/em> I had never heard of that before. It strikes me as a bit severe. I personally would like to see a little more time between releases, but see them often enough that we get really good at it, and it becomes part of our shared community mindset.<\/p>\n<p>After all, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/ffmpeg.org\/projects.html\">a few projects out there that depend on FFmpeg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I admit, whenever I get to thinking about an FFmpeg release, I get a little nervous about the ensuing discussion. Not the discussion about whether or not a release should happen; that&#8217;s a foregone conclusion because it <em>will<\/em> happen. No, the item that makes me lose sleep is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality\">the biggest bikeshed hue discussion<\/a> of them all &#8212; <em>how should we version the upcoming release of FFmpeg<\/em>? I don&#8217;t think I even want to get involved in that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussing how to go about this FFmpeg release business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[68,140],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-multimedia","tag-ffmpeg","tag-release"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}