[theora-dev] Time for a new theora release

[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, and is working on it using
<URL: https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/theora/ > and the #theora IRC
channel.  So far I focused on getting automatic testing working on
gitlab and getting rid of compiler warnings and cruft left behind since
the previous release, 15 years ago.  There is also a reported CVE which
need a tested patch.  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 do not plan to spend a lot of time on this, and expect to wrap up a
new release next week with whatever changes have been prepared so far.
It would be great if more people have time to review patches, provide
fixes for reported issues and test the end result to make sure it is
still working as it should.  More automated tested would be nice too, to
make sure the CI trigger if we do a mistake.

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

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

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen