Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

[Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas apestaart org>]

Hi,

> > 
> > Is GNOME 2.10 maintained?
> 
> If you want to do an analogy, you should ask : is GNOME 2.12
> maintained ? ;)

No - since GNOME 2.14 is not out yet.

The question is - is GNOME maintaining more than one stable branch at
any point ?

> After discussing on irc, it seems not everybody has the same definition
> of "unmaintained".
> 
> For me, unmaintained means "dead", ie no more commit on CVS, nothing.

I think in this particular case, for me it means something roughly like:
- important security fixes will get applied and released
- crasher bugs that have patches and are not invasive will get applied
- I make an effort to not destabilize the latest released version on
this branch by applying random patches from wherever without proper
testing
- I'm not actively looking for bugs to fix in it
- big feature additions, addition of plug-ins, ... do not get applied

I think that's a fair compromise between work involved, viability of
that branch, and expectations from users of that version.


I am assuming that Ronald, by maintaining, in this case, means he might
try and fix bugs on his own.  In practice, given that he's busy, I would
expect him to either be really annoyed by it personally or have a patch
in bugzilla to work from.


My only worry when it comes to 0.8 is possible destabilization of a
highly evolved code base that is about as good as it can possibly get at
this point.

Thomas


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