Am Montag, den 17.02.2020, 14:59 +0100 schrieb David Kastrup: > Jonas Hahnfeld < > hah...@hahnjo.de > > writes: > > > Am Montag, den 17.02.2020, 13:25 +0100 schrieb David Kastrup: > > > Ok, I think 2.20 is basically done and we should push it out by the end > > > of this week. This leaves a few days for the translation team to catch > > > up with the current state. > > > > Wohoo! > > > > > [...] > > > > > > What does this mean for 2.21.0? I think we should aim to push it out > > > fast afterwards, basically a few days later at most, just to get kinks > > > with webpage/versioning from 2.20 ironed out. > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > For more extensive changes of internals and/or syntax, I would recommend > > > to let them sit till 2.21.1 before committing, assuming that we _do_ > > > manage to get 2.21.0 out fast. Why? 2.21.0 has by now quite > > > significantly diverged from 2.20.0. If something does not quite work, > > > it would be nice to have a _released_ version to compare to, and nothing > > > but 2.21.0 would really serve that role satisfactorily. Particularly > > > where problems are detected a long time after getting introduced, having > > > an installable version as a reference is nice, and "it stopped working > > > in 2.21.0" is enough of a quagmire already that we do not really want to > > > add a lot more here. > > > > Sounds good (well, Python 3 is already in). To be sure: This also means > > we'll be using GUB for 2.21.0? I'd like to propose a new system (yes, > > *with* support for Windows) soon, but not sure that I can make it in > > the next week or so... > > Yes, GUB for 2.21.0. We don't want to have another indeterminate > backlog on unstable releases. That means that GUB needs to get switched > over to Python 3.
For those following along: It's not that we need to convert GUB to Python 3, just switch the dependencies of the LilyPond spec. > It may make it more prudent, should we need to > release 2.20.1 at some time, to also go to the cherry-picking nightmare > required to bring stable/2.20 up to Python 3. My point of view remains: Just keep an old version of GUB around and we're fine for 2.20.x, x > 0. Jonas
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