On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 03:49:58PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
Hi all
Before this is forgotten again, better start some dicsussion too early than too late
Unless there's a better place to put these, I plan to reply to this message whenever I notice someone bring up something that seems relevant. Hopefully it will be a good reference if and when the time comes. Sebastian Ramacher recently said this in another thread[1]:
Maintainers and developers of reverse dependencies repeatedly ask for upgrade guides that go beyond "use this function instead"
This strikes me as an excellent bit of boring-but-important STF work. The bug reports in that e-mail make it relatively easy to quantify impact - measure the number of breakages in each revision, make a chart of numbers over time, agree a target number for next time. [1] https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2024-June/328852.html