Hey all! Some updates from the project!*Release assets and process*Some of you might have noticed the appearance of a couple of things related to our release process, namely this rolling release page: https://github.com/savonet/liquidsoap/releases/tag/rolling-release-v2.0.x and a new release assets repository: https://github.com/savonet/liquidsoap-release-assets/releasesFollowing the 3 (!) point releases of 2.0.4, we realized that we had to do something to:
- * Make it easier to test a release before it is out - * Make it possible to have a unique link to a release asset that would never change - * Make it possible for us to only list the last point release in our main release page so as to not confuse the users. This was solved by introducing: - * Rolling releases, which are pre-releases that are refreshed on each commit. They are versioned according to the git commit SHA of the last commit in the release. These releases have the same assets that we provide for final releases, binary packagers, source tarball and docker images. - * A release assets repository where we only add new assets. Please note that the release assets repository is relying on the current no-limit policy on github release assets <https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/releasing-projects-on-github/about-releases#storage-and-bandwidth-quotas>. If that changes, we would obviously have to adapt.Finally, we also have updated our README to document the release process, how we decide on versioning and which are the currently supported releases: https://github.com/savonet/liquidsoap#release-detailsHopefully this provides clarity to some of y'all!*What's next?*It's looking like the 2.0.x branch is getting to be pretty stable. We have an ongoing 2.0.5 rolling release so that would probably be the next stable release to come out.After that, we would like to switch to the 2.1.x branch as the next stable release. One mistake that we did after the 2.0.0 release was to pile up too many new changes in the main branch, which got us so far that we actually had to revert some of it to bring it back into a shape where it could be released in a timely fashion.In the future, we would like to strike a good balance between new & potentially breaking changes and stable releases. We understand that, from a user perspective, having to rework your script when the language changes can be annoying. However, on the other hand, we have some important ideas and changes in the pipe that would greatly improve the user experience overall. The new json parsing support in 2.1.x is an example of such an advancement.Because we have limited resources, we do plan on maintaining a single ongoing development branch, currently 2.1.x , living on the git main branch and an ongoing stable release, first as rolling release from which we cut versioned, published release.With the support of rolling releases, we may consider backporting patches to older releases when they apply easily but will not guarantee that we always do. One of the challenge with the releases assets build process is that dependencies, OSes and etc change and we cannot keep maintaining release build processes eternally.In order to support this effort and keep on giving more clarity, we have started working on a roadmap <https://github.com/savonet/liquidsoap/blob/main/ROADMAP.md>! Most of the upcoming breaking changes will come from that list so feel free to check it out, give us some feedback, suggest improvements or missing important features and maybe work with us on some of it!One feature that we have been cooking up that I'm pretty excited about is live switching with ffmpeg encoded content. We are working on making switch and fallback properly work when using encoded content so someone can, for instance, live switch between an OBS source and a local file playlist and send that as HLS output and/or rtmp output without having to re-encode! We believe that it should be possible but this will eventually require the user to understand how codecs and containers work and we might even have to write new ffmpeg bitstream filters..!That's it for now, happy liquidsoap hacking to all y'all! -- Romain and Sam
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