Request to start tagging releases

[hcorion]

Cubeb has been used outside of the Mozilla space for a while now, it would be nice if we had a concept of stable releases to allow for consistent use for third parties and for a system cubeb library on unix-based OSes to be shared between the various applications.

[Tachi107]

I'm currently maintaining cubeb in Debian (the package landed yesterday 🎉️), and I have to say that without releases everything is a bit more difficult :/

[kinetiknz]

Definitely open to doing this, especially with feedback on what'd be most helpful for other (non-Gecko) users.

[Tachi107]

I don't know in terms of features (as I personally don't use cubeb directly), but from a distro perspective predictable ABI and API compatibility (e.g. breaking API, and possibly ABI, compat only with major releases, or breaking ABI only in minor (non-patch) releases, etc) would be really important.

For feature feedbacks you could get in touch with some guys that are creating Nintendo consoles emulators (yuzu, citra, Dolphin), as they all seem to be using cubeb. For example, it seems that they would really like to have multichannel output (yuzu-emu/yuzu#3751), but it seems that you're already tracking this in #178

[kinetiknz]

We have some breaking API changes planned for early next year, so I'll make a "1.x" branch and tag a stable release from that before making those changes. That branch is likely to see only very minimal maintenance and changes after that point. Firefox will continue to use the latest development version, so generally won't remain compatible with stable releases. Once the breaking API changes settle down, I'll also tag a version of that for release.

[Tachi107]

Sound good, thanks :)

[Tachi107]

Related to #257