We have a new release candidate, slower development, highlights on development problems, and a vacation.
RELEASE CANDIDATE As always, this means: - activity on master goes on as normal. - nobody touches the release/unstable branch, other than translators, who may merge with that if they want to and don't break anything. The question of whether translators have a stable branch or not is a separate matter and has nothing to do with the release plans. It's just a question of how the translators want to organize themselves. - when I say "nobody touches the release/unstable branch", I mean it. There will be no new features, no ordinary bugfixes, no doc changes. - if there are no Critical issues in two weeks, release/unstable becomes stable/2.16. - if not, I make a new release/unstable based on master whenever those Critical issues are fixed. This will obviously pick up any new features, bugfixes, or doc updates that happened in master. SLOWER DEVELOPMENT Development has slowed to a trickle. I'm not certain if this is just because it's late spring (i.e. busy academic time), or if people are holding their breaths waiting for the stable release (i.e. not putting forward any major patches), or just everybody getting older. DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS The lack of interested mentors is a problem. For example, Luke has been trying to add a few comments and clean-ups to our code since Feb 10. http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2310 However, this is a general problem which we've had for years; it's not going to be fixed any time soon. And I'm certainly not pointing fingers here, since I'm not willing to mentor people. Trying to anticipate future problems, I recalled guile indentation: http://codereview.appspot.com/4896043/ My impression is that it would only take an hour or two to fix this, and then we could standardize all the scheme indentation. This isn't a theoretical concern; Adam Spiers' first patch required hours of extra work because of misunderstandings about our desired indentation. This strikes me as a fairly juicy piece of low-hanging fruit. VACATION On a personal note, I'm off to Europe from May 8 to 24, seeing Zurich, Munich, Salzburg, Vienna, Prague, and Germany (in that order). If anybody is in one of those cities and wants to meet up for a few hours, let me know. Taking it back to lilypond, all our accommodation is supposed to have wifi, so I should be able to make releases as normal. However, if 2.16 turns stable during that time, and if that release requires unforseen fixes, there may be some problems. - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
