[Development] Requesting Feature Freeze exception for provisioning FFmpeg for Android

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 14 December 2022 07:07:35 -03 Samuel Raposo Vieira Mira via 
Development wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Following the implementation of the new FFmpeg backend for QtMultimedia,  I
> come to ask an exception for provisioning the CI with builds with FFmpeg
> for Android. This will also enable some tests for FFmpeg in Android.
 
> The patch in question is https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qt5/+/440853
> . It was ready a couple weeks ago but missed the deadlines because of the
> submodule update and now was updated to use a build of FFmpeg with HW
> encoding for Android.  It would be nice to start 6.5 with this feature
> already working 😊.

I don't think this needs to be under freeze, so it needs no exception in the 
first place.

Adding testable configurations should be allowed at any time, as it increases 
our quality. The only gotcha is that you should ensure everything passes 
before you make the configuration enforced.

Changing how one of our binaries will get released is a different story, but 
that's not what you're asking.
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Cloud Software Architect - Intel DCAI Cloud Engineering