Hello, On 3 January 2012 20:49, Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 02:57:24PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: >> James <pkx1...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > My question to David, because I am not getting where the 'ire' is >> > coming from, why do you care if we release dev after dev release vs >> > stable? > > Yeah, especially since Carl was *already* making good progress on > the GUB-related critical issues. > >> <URL:http://xkcd.com/386/> > > yep. > > Let's cut to the chase: I am an evil semi-overlord. I jealously > guard my ssh login to lilypond.org (along with Han-Wen's and > Jan's), I am fickle, and I like to play with small kittens. Due > to my evil fickle nature, I am not going to change the stated > policy until it has been in place for at least 12 months. Any > critical issue will block a stable release. I am chuckling > maniacally and delighting in how evil and wrong I am being. > > Don't like it? You have three (effective) options: > 1. don't add regressions. > 2. fix (or help fix) any critical issues. > 3. build your own binary releases. > > > > Finally: I bet that Hitler had strong opinions on when open-source > projects should release stable versions. > > Hugs and kisses, > - Graham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law ! -- -- James _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
