Nov 7, 2023, 08:36 by d...@lynne.ee:

> Oct 29, 2023, 06:57 by d...@lynne.ee:
>
>> Oct 29, 2023, 05:51 by mich...@niedermayer.cc:
>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 09:23:45PM +0200, Lynne wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oct 28, 2023, 18:49 by mich...@niedermayer.cc:
>>>>
>>>> > On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 06:04:41PM +0200, Lynne wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> It's been a while since we've had a release, and we've had
>>>> >> a lot of new features in.
>>>> >> We did say we would make releases more often, and I think
>>>> >> it's about time we have a new release.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Anything anyone wants to have merged or should we branch
>>>> >> off 6.1 in a few days?
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>> > Whats the status of this ?
>>>> > I can branch 6.1 anytime
>>>> >
>>>> > It was just that jb told me
>>>> > "6.1 opportunity is gone.
>>>> >  We're too late on the schedule, and noone had time to work on it, so it 
>>>> > is wiser to target 7.0 in January"
>>>> >
>>>> > but now i see on IRC
>>>> > <Lynne> make a damn release already
>>>> > <durandal_1707> j-b: drop MiNi from release maintership and nominate 
>>>> > Lynne
>>>> > <Lynne> I pledge to bring back /slap IRC messages to those who fail to 
>>>> > push the patches they want for release!
>>>> > <j-b> durandal_1707: good point, we should look at doing another 5.1.x 
>>>> > release and a 6.0.x release.
>>>> >
>>>> > noone mentioned 5.1.x and 6.0.x to me before
>>>> >
>>>> > anyway, ill try to make releases from all maintained branches,
>>>> >
>>>> > and will branch 6.1 as soon as Lynne or others say everything is ready.
>>>> >
>>>> > thx
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> It's never too late to make a release. If we do a release now, nothing's 
>>>> stopping
>>>> us from doing a 7.0 and getting back on track with releases every two 
>>>> months or so,
>>>> like the plan was.
>>>>
>>>> 7.0 is likely to be a pretty big release, with YUVJ removal, (xHE) 
>>>> AAC+fixes, D3D12 hwdec,
>>>> Vulkan encode and Vulkan AV1, and VVC, and IAMF, and MLP work, so it's a 
>>>> good idea to
>>>> have a release before all this lands.
>>>>
>>>> I think the tree is in a pretty good state ATM, you should go ahead and 
>>>> branch if you're
>>>> comfortable with it as well.
>>>>
>>>
>>> branch made
>>>
>>
>> Thanks. I'll get a blog post ready for the transform work, as kierank wanted 
>> to post something,
>> and if users can know to who to point fingers to in case it degrades 
>> performance on RPI1 devices.
>>
>>
>>>> Let's aim for a release by Sunday next week. That should give everyone 
>>>> enough time to
>>>> backport fixes they want in.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I would aim for 1-3 weeks (when code and developers are ready)
>>> dont want to aim for a specific day, better pick a day when everything is 
>>> fine
>>> not too many distractions, ...
>>>
>>> Or is there something that favors us to be before a specific date ?
>>>
>>
>> Not really a reason, Sunday is just an optimistic date to aim for.
>> If there are no big fixes to backport to the branch, I think we can target 
>> it.
>>
>
> The nlmeans_vulkan patch I just sent is the last patch I'd like to have in 
> 6.1.
> Does anyone else have any patches they would like in 6.1?
>

Pushed the 2 patches.

Michael, do you think you can tag the release late tonight?
No one has said anything yet.
I'll write release notes for the website by then as well.
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