[theora-dev] Time for a new theora release

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

My initial email have not made it to the web archive yet, so I repeat
the basic premise:

[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> I believe it is time to get out a new release of theora.
> <URL: https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/theora/-/issues/2319 > and
> <URL: https://github.com/xiph/theora/issues/17 > list a few interesting
> views on the need for a new release.

I plan to wrap up a new release next weekened with whatever is in the
master branch at that time.

> There are pending patches on both gitlab and github.  Tristan Matthews
> volunteered on IRC to migrate the github patches to gitlab soon, so I
> suspect we can wait for that before considering merging them into
> master.  I suspect some of them need more work.

I've now had a look at the github pull requests, and moved the ones I
feel competent to handle as merge requests under
<URL: https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/theora/-/merge_requests >.  The only
remaining one is the cmake build system one, where I lack the skills and
interest and hope someone else can decide.

There are now seven merge requests in need of a review on gitlab,
including a CVE related fix.  I hope someone got time to help check if
they are correct.

There are several issues left to check out on both gitlab and github.

> An open question is which version number such new release should get.

Any views on this?  Note, my plan is to make a new 1.2 based release,
not one based on 1.1.1 and the theora-1.1 branch.  Perhaps there is a
need for a update of 1.1.1 too, but I leave that for others.

I still hope to see you on IRC, #theora on irc.libera.chat. :)

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen